Home automation: General purpose programming

Explain how and why digital systems represent integers in binary

Select and use a range of digital tools efficiently, including unfamiliar features, to create, locate and communicate content, consistently applying common conventions

Select and use a range of digital tools efficiently and responsibly to share content online, and plan and manage individual and collaborative agile projects

Design algorithms involving nested control structures and represent them using flowcharts and pseudocode

Trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors

Define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by creating user stories

Design the user experience of a digital system

Generate, modify, communicate and evaluate alternative designs

Implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language

Evaluate existing and student solutions against the design criteria, user stories and possible future impact