51. OCR GCSE (J277) 2.1 Algorithmic thinking
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OCR J277 Specification Reference - Section 2.1
This video explores algorithmic thinking: getting to a solution by identifying the individual steps needed. An algorithmic way of approaching a word-search is used as an example. The code used is not important in this video, merely the approach of breaking a problem down to achieve a working solution. Advantages algorithmic thinking are discussed in another video, “Decomposition”.
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00:00 Algorithmic thinking
00:10 Intro
00:15 Principles of computational thinking
00:27 Algorithmic thinking
01:01 Word search program
03:30 Decomposition of solving a wordsearch
04:43 Abstraction
06:50 Searching efficiently
12:54 Output
13:22 Recap
14:25 Outro
Last updated: 10.03.26
