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COMPUTATIONAL-THINKING5 MIN READ

Build an Algorithm From a Manual Process

Translate a manual expert process into ordered algorithmic steps with checks and exceptions.

Expert habit Vendor approval is fast for Omar and fragile for everyone else. Algorithmic steps make expert judgment teachable, testable, and improvable. Algorithm extraction Input -> rule -> exception -> output Turn habit into ordered steps by naming what the expert checks and what each check changes. Trust intuition not transferable A repeatable approval path. A usable algorithm includes the happy path and the stop paths. 01 Observe 02 Write rules 03 Now you try Step 1 Omar approves a vendor quickly and says he just knows what to look for.

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