CSE 3 Fluency with Information Technology

Computational Thinking

Desktop Publishing with Microsoft Word

Making Information Available to the World

with HTML and webpage

Visual Programming with Alice

Data Analysis and Visualization with Microsoft Excel

Dynamic Webpage Programming with

JavaScript

Presentation of Information with

Microsoft PowerPoint

• The spreadsheet is useful to record and calculate numerical data, such as financial statements.

• Functions can be used to derive the statistics or to categorize the data.

• The spreadsheet can be converted to charts to depict data visually.

• The PowerPoint is useful to present information in slides.

• Create webpages in HTML in a hierarchical structure, with hyperlinks, images, and tables.

• Use JavaScript to make webpages interactive, such as a simple Black Jack game or an order tracking system.

• Computational Thinking is thinking at multiple levels of abstractions, such as

• solving problems• designing systems• understanding the powers and limits

of human and machine intelligence.

• Alice is a silly program which instances can be used to perform a number of animations through methods.

Adventures in Computational Thinking

By Yu-Chieh Chen