Programming concepts
This comprehensive online guide, provides a background to programming. This topic has information about sequence, and selection (we call branching) allows different instructions to be run in different situations, and iteration allows instructions to be repeated over and over again. It includes how programs must store and maniplate data so variables are used.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 7-8 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Professional learning, Article or research |
| Format | Web page |
| Core and overarching concepts | Implementation (programming) |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI8P09
Implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language |
| Technologies & Programming Languages | Python |
| Keywords | Data types, Variables |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge and Raspberry Pi Foundation |
| Copyright | © University of Cambridge and Raspberry Pi Foundation. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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