Introducing the concepts of abstraction, decomposition, algorithm design and pattern recognition, this video gets inside the ‘mind’ of a computer to understand why computational thinking is a crucial first step to designing a successful program. Students and will find this an approachable foundation to computational thinking.

Originally released by ClickView/VEA, 2019. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on December 18, 2019.

How do Computers Think? (9:56); .