Computational Thinking

What is computational thinking?

Computational thinking facilitates new ways of seeing existing problems.Computational thinking is the intellectual, reasoning skill that a professional needs to master in order to apply computational techniques or computer applications to the problems and projects in their field, whether the field is economics, art, or a science, or an area within the humanities or social sciences.

Why is computational thinking important?

Computational thinking facilitates new ways of seeing existing problems.

It does this by:
• Emphasizes creating knowledge rather than using information [Phillips 2008]
• Presents possibilities for creatively solving problems [Phillips 2008]
• Facilitates innovation

The reference is: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~CompThink/resources/ct_pat_phillips.ppt

Material on these pages is supported by NSF Award CNS-0829671, IBM, and the DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media. Any opinions, finding and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors.