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

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Curriculum content descriptions

Implement and modify programs with user interfaces involving branching, iteration and functions in a general-purpose programming language (ACTDIP030)

Elaborations

developing and modifying digital solutions by implementing instructions contained in algorithms through programs
developing a digital game that manipulates models of real-world objects
programming a robot to recognise particular objects and to treat them differently, for example choose objects based on colour
creating digital solutions that provide user navigation and prompts with controlled repetitions, for example an information kiosk that has layers of buttons and prompts the user three times before returning to the beginning

General capabilities

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

ScOT terms

User interfaces, Programming languages, Branching, Computer programming, Iteration

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