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ASSESSMENT TASK 4 - Notes & Project
This assessment task examines your:
- knowledge of how store data in variables of different data types and data structures.
- ability to plan, document, test and implement a programming project of their choosing.
Your notes will be worth 40 marks and your project worth 50 marks. The whole assessment is 25% of your year 9 mark. It examines the outcomes listed in the Notice of Assessment.
The task is spread over many weeks to help you submit drafts and obtain feedback.
Submission of Work
Submission of Work
Your notes and documentation should be submitted on Google Classroom in one or two Google Docs or MS Word documents with correct semantic formatting. This will help you structure and navigate your work, as well as make it easier for your teacher to mark.
Possible Topics and Ideas
Possible Topics and Ideas
There are two basic dimensions of programs you could write: Textual vs Graphical; and Utility vs Game.
Text Interface
Text Interface
The option that closes resembles exam-like problem solving skills is a text based program. Think of a REPL programming exercise scaled up and applied to something that interests you.
Utility Examples:
- Basic calculator
- Specialised calculator, e.g.,
- electronics, flight, game mod system, etc..
- Personal info database / Address book
- ATM Simulator or Cash Register / Point of Sale Simulator
- Quiz Program, e.g., Multiple Choice Quiz / Game Show
Game Examples:
- Rock Paper Scissors
- Number guessing game
- Word Game, e.g., Hangman
- Battleships
- Dice games
- Text Adventure
- not simply a choose-your-own-adventure
Graphical Interface
Graphical Interface
This is a harder option as you will have more to learn. I will help you, but not run explicit lessons.
In the Mu Editor there are some built-in tools for easily making Graphical User Interfaces and Games.
For GUIs there is GUIZero:
- https://lawsie.github.io/guizero/resources/
- A nicer interface on top of Tkinter
For games there is PyGame Zero
- https://codewith.mu/en/tutorials/1.0/pgzero
- A much easier way to use PyGame
Mu also has some useful modules built in.
- PIL - Python Image Library
- curses - for text-based user interfaces
- numpy, matplotlib - data science and number crunching!
- Qt - the GUI library that Mu is built on
If you are using new versions of Mu, you can also load modules from PIP by clicking the cog icon.
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