131. OCR A Level (H446) SLR22 – 2.1 Tackling concurrent problems
About this video
OCR Specification Reference
A Level 2.1.5a
This is one of a series of two videos looking at the computational thinking strand of "Thinking Concurrently". In this video we discuss how to identify the various parts of problems which can be tackled at the same time.
Key questions:
- What do we mean by the term thinking concurrently?
- What does concurrency look like in a computer system?
00:00 Tackling concurrent problems
00:07 Intro
00:12 Being able to think concurrently
00:37 An analogy
01:17 A note from the exam board
01:42 Game example
03:52 Concurrency vs parallelism
04:30 Concurrency
05:53 Parallelism
07:17 Summary
07:51 Key questions
08:04 Computational thinking cheat sheet
08:46 Outro
Last updated: 24.07.26
