[Year 12 SofDev] U3O2 - Programming skills
Andrew Shortell
shortell at get2me.net
Thu Apr 11 23:40:30 EST 2013
Hi Heath
Don't forget to pass parameters to procedures! Although that has not been asked in living memory on the exam.... It could be. If you read the examiners reports over the last ten years you will see that the standard of pseudo code for the exam is not wildly high. Thus if your students learn it fairly well then it is easy marks to grab to put themselves ahead of the pack.
Personally coding is the whole reason I even teach the course - it is the fun part. From 'Hello World' to programming a lift.
Use past exams, study design and mark Kelly's web site and these lists lots and good luck
Andrew
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On 11/04/2013, at 12:57 PM, Anthony Sullivan <asullivan at tps.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> Heath
>
> In the study design for U3O2 a key knowledge point states:
>
> Processing features of programming languages, including instructions, procedures, methods, functions and control structures
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> Control structures refer to sequence, repetition (three types of loops); conditional (IF & CASE)
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> Some teachers have put together a good summary of all the programming requirements in the course
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> I will dig around a bit later and try and find one for you
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> Hi guys,
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> I'm teaching Software Development for the first time and would appreciate some wisdom from those more experienced.
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> In the study design, I can see that I need to cover data types, arrays, records and files.
>
> But I can't find anything about other skills, general mathematical calculations, If statements, While loops, For loops etc.
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> Is there a list of key skills whilst we're programming?
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> I don't want to miss anything that could be on an exam.
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> Thanks.
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> Peter Langham
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> From: "Matheson, Heath A" <Matheson.Heath.A at edumail.vic.gov.au>
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> Hi Peter,
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> There are not really a list of key programming skills. The skill is "use appropriate processing features of the programming languages".
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> I definitely included:
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> * basic maths calculations
>
> * concatenating strings
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> * inputs and outputs
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> * if/then/else
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> * and/or/not
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> * for statements
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> * 'repeat until' versus 'while'.
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> I've probably forgotten something. If you haven't already, glance through the 2011 and 2012 exam. The pseudocode questions give a bit of an idea of what they must know.
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> Cheers,
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> Heath Matheson
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> Mount Beauty Secondary College
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> Hi guys,
>
>
>
> I'm teaching Software Development for the first time and would appreciate some wisdom from those more experienced.
>
>
>
> In the study design, I can see that I need to cover data types, arrays, records and files.
>
>
>
> But I can't find anything about other skills, general mathematical calculations, If statements, While loops, For loops etc.
>
>
>
> Is there a list of key skills whilst we're programming?
>
>
>
> I don't want to miss anything that could be on an exam.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Peter Langham
>
> Narre Warren South P-12 College
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