Creative Thinking

Dr. Noman Javed

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Namal College Mianwali

noman.javed@namal.edu.pk
October 08, 2018
 Course Information
• Instructor: Dr. Noman Javed

• Credit Hours: Non credit course

• Sessions: 1 per week

Learning Outcomes

Creative Critical
Thinking Thinking

Analytical Algorithmic
Thinking Thinking
Read out the colors

red green

blue orange

black blue

yellow gray

red pink
Connect 9 dots using 4 straight lines
What is it?
What is it?
Perspective
 Calendar Cubes
Use two cubes to represent all dates of a month
Square like structure
 Now think of circles

Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change!
 Human behavior
• Handout
 Common Sense
• Handout
 1 + 2 + 3 + . . . + = n * (n + 1) ÷ 2
• Lets check
 1 + 2 + 3 + . . . + = n * (n + 1) ÷ 2
• Carl Friedrich Guass
 Procrastination
• Martin Luther King
• I have a dream speech

• Early start
 Creative Thinking

Out of box

Procrastinate Observation

Change
Rearrange
Perspective

Common Human
Sense Behavior
 Some other related aspects
• Sleep with the problem
• Reading literature
• Second language
• Sports
• Hobby
• Tourism
• Empathy
• Discuss Ideas
• Constrained Environment
 Project
Pick anything(s) around you and come up with
its creative usage
• Hanger
• Plastic bottles
• Stones
• Papers

Deadline: October 29, 2018