Home Search CS Unplugged: Field guide: Programming Languages

CS Unplugged: Field guide: Programming Languages

An online resource for teaching Computer Science to students, this chapter focusses on Programming Languages. This chapter covers what happens when you write and run a program, and how this affects the way that you distribute the program for others to use.

Additional details

Year band(s)	5-6, 7-8, 9-10
Format	Web page
Core and overarching concepts	Implementation (programming)
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s)	AC9TDI6P01 Define problems with given or co developed design criteria and by creating user stories AC9TDI6P02 Design algorithms involving multiple alternatives (branching) and iteration AC9TDI6P05 Implement algorithms as visual programs involving control structures, variables and input AC9TDI8P04 Define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by creating user stories AC9TDI8P05 Design algorithms involving nested control structures and represent them using flowcharts and pseudocode AC9TDI8P06 Trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors AC9TDI8P09 Implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language AC9TDI10P04 Define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by interviewing stakeholders to create user stories AC9TDI10P05 Design algorithms involving logical operators and represent them as flowcharts and pseudocode AC9TDI10P06 Validate algorithms and programs by comparing their output against a range of test cases AC9TDI10P09 Implement, modify and debug modular programs, applying selected algorithms and data structures, including in an object-oriented programming language
Keywords	Programming Languages, Programming, Python, Java, ByteCode
Organisation	University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Copyright	University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.