The Practice and Application of Computer Thinking in STEM Education

Computer has become an indispensable part of our life. They are used in almost all fields of human activities, from banking to medicine. Computers can perform various tasks, which were once the only domain of human beings. Computers can also be used as tools for education and learning. In fact, computers have long been used as calculators and word processors for students to write articles and prepare reports on paper, and computers have been used for education. However, with the emergence of personal computer (PC), education has entered a new era, and students can learn at their own pace. This paper briefly describes the concept and design idea of STEM, and takes a specific design project as an example to illustrate the practice and application of STEM education in the training process of computer thinking from the aspects of data extraction, abstract model, optimization algorithm, simulation programming, etc.