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Cambridge AS & A Level Computer Science

9.1Computational thinking skills

Computational thinking skills in Cambridge AS & A Level Computer Science: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
Subtopic

Overview

Abstraction and decomposition; taught in the algorithm design lesson covered at 9.2.

Learning objectives

What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.

  1. 9.1.1Explain the need for and benefits of abstraction and produce an abstract model keeping only essential details.
  2. 9.1.2Use decomposition to break a problem into sub-problems and program modules.

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