Professional Learning And Networking for Computing
Technique to support early development of problem solving skills through step by step example solutions.
Activity Summary This is a collection of code reading exercises written in Visual Basic. There is a group of printable pupil booklets containing exercises to develop the following skills: code identification code description code explaining debugging tracing answering explaining code exam questions in SQA reference language The...
Activity Summary This is a series of practical tasks that focus on the relational database content of the N5 Computing Science course. All of the practical work is completed in MS Access. However, with a updated Help sheet (the current resource is based on VB...
Activity Summary Standard Algorithms in Livecode – This activity takes the learner through the process of creating a program for a holiday company. Pupils will need to know how to import and store the contents of a text file in a program. The learner will...
Summary of Technique This technique uses the worked examples approach. Pupils can build a solid understanding of a process for working through a complex task, such as a calculation. This technique serves as an example of how worked examples can be used for calculation tasks as well as coding tasks....
Activity Summary Higher/ National 5 pupil exercises providing worked examples for a variety of Data Representation calculations including the uncompressed files sizes of images with dimensions in pixels and inches sound with multiple channels video Suggested Time Required 10 minutes to study each worked example...
Summary of Technique [Office Mix] This technique uses the worked examples approach. Pupils can build a solid understanding of a process for working through a complex task, such as writing an algorithm. This technique serves as an example of how worked examples can be used to make sure pupils take...
Activity Summary National 5 Pupil Revision Notes covering the programming constructs assignment, selection and repetition. These are linked to worked examples of explaining code questions, written in the SQA Reference Language (also known as ‘Haggis’). Suggested Number of Lessons These will be used throughout the SDD course....
Summary of Approach Computing Scientists must be able to solve problems efficiently. Often, problems are very complicated. Computing Scientists can quickly suffer from cognitive overload. Kinnunen & Simon researched the effect of programming assignments on students. Students were asked to talk about their experience of completing...
