Unplugged - Computational Thinking

This lesson is computational thinking. Sometimes
learning a new game can be tough, right? At

first it might seem really confusing and sometimes,
there's no one there to teach you the rules,

so you have to figure it out on your own.
The good news is that you can get better at

figuring things out on your own when you know
a few thinking tricks. These tricks are unique

ways for looking at and solving problems.
In this lesson, you'll learn about four tricks

and practice them with your friends to figure
out the rules to a game. When you break down

a big problem into smaller pieces, you're
using your brain to decompose the big problem.

Once we've decomposed the big problem into
several smaller problems, we can go on to

our next trick, which is called pattern match.
That's when we look for similarities between

things. Once I find the things that are the
same, I can figure out what things are different.

When I remove those differences, that's called
abstraction. After I have figured out the

steps to solving a problem, I can put those
steps in a specific order called an algorithm

so that anyone can use my directions to solve
that problem. We're going to use these four

steps to figure out how to play the game with
no rules. By the end of the game, you'll be

able to play something that looks like this!