Digital technologies / Year 7 and 8 / Digital Technologies Processes and Production Skills

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Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority

Curriculum content descriptions

Design algorithms represented diagrammatically and in English, and trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors (ACTDIP029)

Elaborations

investigating and designing some common algorithms, such as to search, sequence, sort, merge, control data structures
checking the accuracy of an algorithm before it is implemented, for example desk checking it with test data to see if the instructions produce the expected results
using diagrams to describe key decisions, for example creating flowcharts using digital systems to describe a set of computational instructions
using structured English to express algorithmic instructions, for example using conventional statements such as ‘while’ and ‘endwhile’ in a ‘while loop’ when describing interactive instruction

General capabilities

Literacy
Numeracy
Critical and creative thinking
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability

ScOT terms

Predictions (Science), Diagrams, Trial and error, Algorithms

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