Computer Science at Year 10

CS Topics Covered

Computational thinking for digital technologies

The progress outcomes describe the significant learning steps that students take as they develop their expertise in computational thinking for digital technologies.

These topics reinforce Progress Outcome 3 - 5. Students will 

• understand that there can be more than one algorithm for the same problem PO3

• understand that digital devices store data using just two states represented by binary digits PO3

• debug simple algorithms and programs by identifying when things go wrong with their instructions and correcting them PO4

• be able to explain why things went wrong and how they fixed them PO4

• understand that digital devices represent data with binary digits and can detect errors in data storage and transmission PO4

• evaluate the efficiency of algorithms PO4

• recognise that computers need to search and sort large amounts of data PO4

• understand how computers store more complex types of data using binary digits PO5