Professional Learning And Networking for Computing
Higher CS
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...
Activity Summary This is a set of exercises for Higher pupils using the TRACS technique. There are examples are in Python 3 and the SQA Reference Language. This activity allows the pupils to gain an understanding of how the data in programs are executed. This set of materials...
Activity Summary Explanation of and exercises about implementing the use of external text files and creating and using records in VB.NET Suggested Time Required 3 to 4 hours of class time Resources Click to download Follow Up Activities Pupils can integrate this with their study of...
Activity Summary This activity allows students to gain an understanding of parameters and parameter passing techniques. This is an introductory lesson. The focus of the lesson is to introduce passing parameters; at this stage, topics such as difference between functions and procedures are not considered....
Activity Summary The attached resources introduces data modelling using entities, attributes and relationships by recreating part of the data model used by social networking sites. The use of entity relationship diagrams as a means of representing a data model is introduced. The resources can also help...
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 is used to interrogate pupils’ knowledge of relational databases by looking at alternative conceptions. A list of known alternative conceptions (see the approach post here) is used as the basis for a question set. The questions can act as a...
Activity Summary This activity allows students to explore the client/server process used in web-based applications. They will simulate different interactions of data flowing between the browser and the webserver (specifically the HTTP server). They will start with simple examples and then gradually build up towards...
