Hi John,

The Computational Thinking skills that are taught in these Wolfram U courses are different from those normally found in a computer science curriculum.

Computational thinking is a process in which you creatively apply a four-step problem-solving cycle to ideas, challenges and opportunities you encounter to develop and test solutions. The emphasis is learning how to take real-life situations and abstract—often to programs—so a computer can calculate the answer.

You can find out more about Computational Thinking here: https://www.computationalthinking.org/#what-computational-thinking

These courses teach Computational Thinking using the Wolfram Language, and you will learn elements of Wolfram Language as part of them. However, Computational Thinking itself is a process that can be applied using any language/software.