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Digital technologies / Year 9 and 10 / Digital Technologies Processes and Production Skills
Curriculum content descriptions
Design algorithms represented diagrammatically and in structured English and validate algorithms and programs through tracing and test cases (ACTDIP040)
Elaborations
- designing algorithms to solve real-world problems and describing algorithms using flow charts and structured English, for example START, END, IF and UNTIL
- recognising that different algorithms can solve a problem with different trade-offs
- tracing algorithms to predict results and program state for a given input, for example desk checking or using an interactive debugging tool
- using tracing techniques to test algorithms, for example desk checking an algorithm for a given input by stepping through the algorithm while keeping track of contents of the variables
- developing test cases that correspond to the requirements of the specifications, for example validating program behaviour on a range of valid and invalid user input
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Diagrams, Design, Algorithms, Data logging, Desk checking, Conditional statements