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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Computational thinking--applications. The student, with guidance from an educator, applies the fundamentals of computer science. 

The further explanation is designed to be a resource for educators that helps them better understand the topic their students are learning. Further explanations may be written at a more complex level than would be expected for students at the grade level.

Computational thinking is a thinking process used to solve problems logically and methodically. Computational thinking promotes a purposeful, describable, and replicable method of problem solving. 
 

Ask students to create code that solves a problem and explain their solution.

Notes:

  • Students may use block coding programs or coding equipment, such as robots, to create code with technology.
  • Students may use steps in a process, such as organizing a bookshelf or collection of toys, for creating a sequence of code without technology.
     
Glossary terms and definitions are consistent across kindergarten through high school in the TEKS Guide. The definitions are intended to give educators a common understanding of the terms regardless of what grade level they teach. Glossary definitions are not intended for use with students.

instructions for a computer (as within a piece of software); the symbolic arrangement of statements or instructions in a computer program, or the set of instructions in such a program
 

the following of one thing after another; succession