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Visual to text coding: Lesson 11

This is the eleventh in a series of lessons to transition from visual coding to text-based coding with a General Purpose Programming language. It builds on the coding concept of functions. With the addition of parameters, functions allow the programmer to adapt their reusable code’s behaviour, tapping into the Computational Thinking skills of generalisation, pattern recognition and abstraction.

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Year band(s) 5-6, 7-8
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
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ESA
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.

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