ALM-CTPS

Computational thinking is?

• Programming

• Thinking like a computer

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  Codeing

• 
  Logically solving problems

Which of these is an example of abstraction?

• The layers in a network protocol stack

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  Use a pre-written library of procedures and functions to perform operations such as sorting and searching.

• Ignore the colour of a player token in a snakes ladder game model.

• Subdividing a problem into smaller tasks that different teams can work on independently.

What is _______ taking a complex problem and breaking it down into a series of small more manageable problems called?

• Decomposition

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  Abstraction 

• 
  Pattern Recognition 

• Algorithms

What is __________ problems looked at individually, considering how similar problems have been solved previously called?

• •  

    Decomposition

• • B. 

    Abstraction

• • C. 

    Pattern Recognition

• • D. 

    Algorithms

What is _______ focusing only on the important details, while ignoring irrelevant information called?

• Decomposition

• 
  Abstraction

• Pattern Recognition

• Algorithms 

What is _______ simple steps or rules to solve each of the smaller problems can be designed called?

• Decomposition

• 
  Pattern Recognition

• Abstraction

•  

  Algorithms

Pattern recognition involves finding what 2 things among small, decomposed problems?

• Patterns

• Code

• Difference

• Similarities

Which of the following is not a component of computational thinking?

• Algorithmic thinking

• Pattern recognition/Generalising

• Typing

• Decomposition

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  Define the term abstraction within computational thinking.

• Adding numbers together

• Representing real world problems in a computer program, using symbols and removing unnecessary element

• Taking a real world problem and designing a computer program that exactly replicates every part of that problem in the computer

• Performing multiple calculations on a list of variables

A school database has lots of information on students, the data manager needs to use abstraction? What data should she leave out?

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  Age

• Classes

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  Guardian's phone numbers

• Eye colour