Edexcel GCSE Computer Science 2020

1.1.1: understand the benefit of using decomposition and abstraction to model aspects of the real world and analyse, understand and solve problems

Keywords:

Computational Thinking

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Keyword	Definition
abstraction	hiding unnecessary details in order to focus on the most important points to make a problem easier to solve
analysis	detailed description of a problem and what's involved to solve it
decomposition	breaking a problem down into smaller parts to make it easier to solve
model	simplified simulation of a real world problem
sub problem	smaller part of a project that can be solved separately

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BugZap

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Crossword

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Eliminate

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Flappy Word

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Hangman Definitions

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Hangman Keywords

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Jumble Keyword

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Snake

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TypeRace

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Wordsearch

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Resources:

CnD Abstraction

CnD Decomposition

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