Computer Science GCSE
Computational thinking
What Computational thinking means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Computational thinking
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Reference: OCR
A set of problem-solving principles used before code is written.
Topics that use Computational thinking
- Computational thinking (OCR GCSE)
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