CT1: Computational Thinking Checkpoint 1 - Deciding Where To Eat

Imagine that it is lunch time and you and your friends are hungry. There are several options for where you might get lunch on campus, e.g.

• Founder’s Dining Hall
• The Hub
• Boilerhouse Cafe
• KW’s
• Tommy’s Kitchen
• The Union Shop

How would you go about choosing where to eat? There might be a number of different factors that might influence your decision. For example: how far away each venue is; how expensive it is (you might be able to get a discount!); what different kinds of food you each prefer; etc.

Go through the following steps to come up with an algorithm for deciding where to get lunch:

1. Think about the different criteria that are relevant, and the different possible options that are available; can you identify a series of questions you can answer which will determine the best place?

2. Write down a flowchart corresponding to the series of decisions you identified in the previous step.

3. Produce some pseudo code that expresses the process described by your flowchart.

Write or upload your answers below. You can produce your flowchart as an image and upload it: either by using software or photographing a handwritten page.