Visual to text coding: Lesson 8
This is the eighth in a series of lessons to transition from visual coding to text-based coding with a General Purpose Programming language. This lesson may take two to three 45-minute periods. It brings together skills from the previous lessons to design and develop a Higher Lower game, where the player tries to guess a secret number.
Additional details
Year band(s) | 5-6, 7-8 |
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Content type | Lesson ideas |
Format | Web page |
Core and overarching concepts | Data representation, Specification (decomposing problems), Implementation (programming) |
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI6P02
Design algorithms involving multiple alternatives (branching) and iteration
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 |
Keywords | Programming, Coding, Data representation, Jason Vearing, Nathan Alison, Scratch, Python, Javascript, flowchart, variables |
Organisation | ESA |
Copyright | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. |
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