Thinking like an algorithm

A recipe and a literal robot that makes the sandwich wrong when orders are vague, a flowchart that draws itself, sequence-decision-repetition, a traced loop, pseudocode, a quiz and an activity.

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  1. Thinking like an algorithm
  2. The robot that takes it all literally
  3. Three pieces for any program
  4. A loop, step by step
  5. Written as pseudocode
  6. Write your algorithm

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