Visual to text coding: Lesson 12
This is the final in a series of lessons to transition from visual coding to text-based coding with a General Purpose Programming language. See next steps for suggested courses and learning sequences after this lesson. It builds on the coding concept of functions (by introducing the concept of return values. Functions are often written to return a result, which can then be used in the main program.
Additional details
| 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 |
| Organisation | ESA |
| Copyright | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. |
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