Year 11 Online

Subject Overview:

• Introduction:

  • Two key topics:

    • Data Analytics

    • Programming (application/multimedia/games programming)

Assessment Summary:

• • • Data Analytics - 20% - Due Week 4 

    • Game Design and Development 

      • Planning - 20% - Due Week 7

      • Game / Application - 20% - Due Week 11

    • Major Free Choice Project - 40% - Due throughout Term 2

Week 1

• Data Analytics:

  • Introductory task:

    • Create a two to three minute presentation (pairs or groups of three) summarising your understanding of data analytics:

      • Define Data Analytics / Analysis and outline how & why it is a useful tool (provide one or two examples)

      •  Explain where large data sets be sourced, and describe what considerations must be made when choosing data sets

      • Outline the hierarchy of four broad types of data analysis and evaluate the usefulness of each

      • Provide specific examples of considerations regarding data set choice and how this impacts the information produced by data analysis

  • Data Analytics introduction page link

  • Ethical Considerations in Data Analytics

  • Pivot Tables

  • Practice Activity

Week 2

• Ensure all required skills are practiced and developed 

• Present your findings from the practice activities

• Introduction to Data Analytics Assignment

  • Individual project, 20% of semester

  • Suggested content to investigate - class discussion and brainstorm

  • Begin assignment (two weeks to complete task)

  • Project specific exemplars - view example assignment presentations

Week 3

• Continue working on Data Analytics Assignment

Week 4 

• Submit Data Analytics Assignment

• Students should submit the following to Managebac:

  • Video of presentation

  • Presentation file (PowerPoint or otherwise)

  • Excel file

  • Any other notes if necessary

• Game Programming & Design

  • Presentation - Analyse the design of an existing game (25 minutes)

    • Describe game

    • List and describe sprites / buttons 

    • List and describe variables / arrays / objects, their use and type

    • Describe programming logic using pseudocode and / or flowcharts

  • Complete your own 'cheat sheet' of programming terminology and concepts. Link here.

    • Save this to One Drive and complete for homework

    • We will create a class 'master' copy from your work next week. 

Week 5 

• Submit (a) programming presentation and (b) 'cheat sheet' to Managebac messages

• Explore P5.js web pages and / or Phaser.io and / or other programming languages / environments (by negotiation) to determine your possible programming language / environments for your upcoming project.

• By the second lesson, write a proposal describing the following:

  • A game or program that acts as a digital solution to a 'problem' of your choice or design

  • Describe the problem that the game/program is aiming to address

  • Outline the information that you will need to collate to determine the parameters of the 'problem'

  • Explain how your game / program is proposed to address your issue

  • Outline the specifics of your proposed game / program (variables, sprites, how it will operate etc)  

Week 1

• Introduction to major project

• Form groups

• Brainstorm ideas

• Present proposal (group)

Week 2

• Once 'local' issue is selected as a group, relevant data is collected using a tool that you develop.

• Each student must be involved in the process of developing and/or coding the tool and collecting/analysing the data.

Week 3 

• Submit/present first part of major project

• Group task, 20% of semester

Week 4 

Week 5 

Week 6 

Week 7 

Week 1

• Wrap up Visitor Register program and assignment

• Submit assignment via Managebac

• Introduction to Data Analytics

  • Data Analytics introduction page link

  • Ethical Considerations in Data Analytics

  • Pivot Tables

  • Practice Activity

Week 2

• Introduction to Data Analytics Assignment

  • Individual project, 20% of semester

  • Suggested content to investigate - class discussion and brainstorm

  • Begin assignment (two weeks to complete task)

  • Project specific exemplars - view example assignment presentations

Week 3

• Continue working on Data Analytics Assignment

Weeks 4 - 8 

• Submit Data Analytics Assignment

• Students should submit the following to Managebac:

  •  video of presentation

  • presentation file (PowerPoint or otherwise)

  • Excel file

  • any other notes if necessary

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• Group project, 40% of semester

• Task specific clarification:

  • Suggested content to investigate - class discussion and brainstorm

  • Present suggested timeline

  • Project specific exemplars - view example assignment presentations

Week 1

• Wrap up Visitor Register program and assignment

• Submit assignment via Managebac

• Introduction to Data Analytics

  • Data Analytics introduction page link

  • Ethical Considerations in Data Analytics

  • Pivot Tables

  • Practice Activity

Week 2

• Introduction to Data Analytics Assignment

  • Individual project, 20% of semester

  • Suggested content to investigate - class discussion and brainstorm

  • Begin assignment (two weeks to complete task)

  • Project specific exemplars - view example assignment presentations

Week 3

• Continue working on Data Analytics Assignment

Weeks 4 - 8 

• Submit Data Analytics Assignment

• Students should submit the following to Managebac:

  •  video of presentation

  • presentation file (PowerPoint or otherwise)

  • Excel file

  • any other notes if necessary

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• Group project, 40% of semester

• Task specific clarification:

  • Suggested content to investigate - class discussion and brainstorm

  • Present suggested timeline

  • Project specific exemplars - view example assignment presentations

Subject Overview:

• Introduction:

  • Two key topics:

    • Exploring Innovation

    • Advanced Programming (multimedia/games programming)

The first three assessments you will undertake are themed around Cars/Racing/Driving

• • Autonomous Vehicles Presentation - 20% - Due Week 3 (Group Assignment)

  • Game Design and Creation - Car Dodging Game

    • Planning - 20% - Due Week 7

    • Game - 20% - Due Week 10

  • Major Game Project - 40% - Due throughout Term 4

Week 1

• Autonomous vehicles:

  • Introductory task #1: Autonomous vehicle questionnaire (you will need to be logged into Google via your school account)

  • Introductory task #2: Driverless cars ethical debate

• Begin first assignment (two weeks to complete task)

• Ensure you record your progress in an online journal (see assignment for examples of what to include)

• Project specific exemplars - view example assignment presentations

Week 2

• Continue working on group task

• Ensure you set specific goals to achieve by the start and end of each lesson

• Ensure you record your progress in an online journal (see assignment for examples of what to include)

Week 3 

• Submit group task

• Introduction to multimedia / games programming in P5.js

  • Introduction & revision of JavaScript

    • Introduction to P5.js

  • Task: on One Drive, create a Digital Technologies Year 10 Semester 2 folder

    • All practice, skills development, 'tests', and project(s) will need to be placed in their own directories within this folder

  • Task: Introductory reading, concepts, and videos. 

    • Make your own 'online documentation' in One Drive (Word Document or other) to act as a core set of instructions/reference for programming throughout this semester.

    • This should serve you as a 'quick reference' to supplement the examples and information on our website and other online documentation.

    • Resources - Introductory reading, concepts, videos:

      • P5 Main Page

      • Setting up a P5 project 

      • P5.js basics

      • Input

      • Adding sound and images

      • Class Files

  • Once this is thoroughly and comprehensively completed  you may check out the examples and start some practice exercises.

  • Note: This document will be continually added to beyond this week. It will form part of your Investigation (Criterion A) for your summative project.

• Complete the following P5.js Exercises:

  • • Please make a new folder for each task, save the files with easily identifiable names and using appropriate .html and/or .js extensions.

    • You may use the P5.js Web Editor and copy/paste the correct code into .txt/.html/.js document(s). 

    • Comment on your code and add output to the console as appropriate (detecting / signalling events etc.).

  • Task 1 - Drawing using shapes and coordinates 

  • Task 2 - Colours, shapes, and text

  • Task 3 - Interactivity

    • Exercise 1 - Mouse movement and button clicks

    • Exercise 2 - Keyboard interactivity and movement

    • Exercise 3 - Extension of Exercise 2

  • Task 4 - Basic Animation (two parts)

• It is essential that you read (and practice from) the create a class file and collisions pages.

  • Complete the following P5.js Exercises:

    • Please make a new folder for each task, save the files with easily identifiable names and using appropriate .html and/or .js extensions.

    • You may use the P5.js Web Editor and copy/paste the correct code into .txt/.html/.js document(s). 

    • Comment on your code and add output to the console as appropriate (detecting / signalling events etc.).

    • Task 5 - Creating class files (please read the tutorial linked at the beginning of the exercise) 

    • Task 6 - Collisions (using the collide2d library)

Week 4 

• Practice tasks

• Further examples

• Introduction to project design Skills Task

Week 5 

• Continue learning programming exercises

• Continue Skills Task

Week 6 

• Continue learning programming exercises

• Complete Skills Task

Week 7 

• Submit Skills Task

• Beginning programming game

Week 8 

• Continue programming game

Week 9 

• Complete programming game

Week 10 

• Submit game

• Introduce and begin major project