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Digital technologies / Year 7 and 8 / Digital Technologies Processes and Production Skills
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
ScOT terms
Predictions (Science), Diagrams, Trial and error, Algorithms