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Computational thinking is a problem solving technique that breaks down complex problems into small manageable pieces. One of the strategies is that you can break into sections that can be solved by a computer.  Of course, you have to have or create information that you can turn into usable data.

Here is a very simple computational thinking example for a marketing campaign. You want to do a marketing mailing to prospects in your most active territory. You will need information on current customers and prospects.  From your customer database, sort by zip code to find the highest collection of customers. Use those top zip codes to compile a list of prospects for your campaign. A computer program or spreadsheet can easily do the sorting and identify those to include in your mailing. 

This simple example shows some of the components that you use in your solution by using computational thinking. Even very complex problems can be solved using this procedure to break into smaller parts. If you have ever developed a flowchart, you have used the basics of computational thinking. 
 
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