Quest Study Guide

figure out the details of the problems that you are trying to solve

• reflect

• variable

• debugging

• define

George wanted to make a robot that prepared him a bowl of ice cream every day when he got home from work.He noticed that the robot made the same motion over and over again. He decided to loop that behavior in his program. What part of Computational Thinking was she using?

• Abstraction

• Decomposition

• Algorithm

• Pattern Matching

Mr. Hillegonds wanted to help a student get to the 6th grade wing. He gave him step by step instructions to help him get to the 6th grade wing. What part of Computational Thinking was he using?

• Abstraction

• Decomposition

• Algorithm

• Pattern Matching

What is the purpose of Computational Thinking?

• To confuse us

• To help us solve only Computer Science problems

• To help us with out homework

• To help us solve any problem that we are faced with

Mr. Fronek was trying to organize a schedule for a half day of school. Instead of thinking of all the students in Mr. Hillegonds' 5th hour, he thought of the whole class as 5th hour. What part of Computational Thinking was she using?

• Abstraction

• Decomposition

• Algorithm

• Pattern Matching

True or False: Computational thinking is useful for only Computer Science Problems.

• True

• False

Grace wanted to create a new bulletin board for the hallway outside of her office. The bulletin board was going to be all about her favorite Computer Scientists. To make the task easier, she split the task up into smaller, easier to manage pieces. What part of Computational Thinking was she using?

• Abstraction

• Decomposition

• Algorithm

• Pattern Matching

Select the correct part of Computational Thinking: A step by step set of instructions used to solve the problem.

• Abstraction

• Pattern Matching

• Decomposition

• Algorithm

Select the correct part of Computational Thinking: Finding patterns in problems and using them to solve the problem.

• Abstraction

• Pattern Matching

• Decomposition

• Algorithm

Select the correct part of Computational Thinking: Breaking the problem down to solve the problem more easily.

• Abstraction

• Pattern Matching

• Decomposition

• Algorithm