Computational Methods

FDE cycles can be broken up and instructions queued for execution

• Backtracking
• Pipelining
• Performance Modelling
• Visualisation

Mapping out a program to identify patterns

• Backtracking
• Pipelining
• Performance Modelling
• Visualisation

Simulation of a system to assess its how it works

• Backtracking
• Pipelining
• Performance Modelling
• Visualisation

Recursively building a solution incrementally, working back through unvisited paths once one trail has been exhausted

• Backtracking
• Pipelining
• Performance Modelling
• Visualisation

Planning the order which processes should complete

• Thinking Ahead
• Thinking Procedurally
• Thinking Logically
• Thinking Concurrently

Considering branching points in a program

• Thinking Ahead
• Thinking Procedurally
• Thinking Logically
• Thinking Concurrently

Planning inputs and outputs

• Thinking Ahead
• Thinking Procedurally
• Thinking Logically
• Thinking Concurrently

Solving separate parts of a problem in parallel

• Thinking Ahead
• Thinking Procedurally
• Thinking Logically
• Thinking Concurrently

Removal of unnecessary information from a problem

• Abstraction
• Decomposition
• Algorithm
• Top-down Design

A set of instructions which can be followed in order to solve a problem

• Abstraction
• Decomposition
• Algorithm
• Top-down Design