POD 5-6

Coding helps students develop systematic reasoning, problem-solving, and communication skills. Coding, or computer programming, is giving a computer step-by-step commands to tell it what to do.

Definition: Challenges or activities that promote problem solving and empower students to realise that computer science ideas are within their grasp.

Definition: Robotics is a subject that teaches essential Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) topics through the operation of Robots. A robot is a programmable machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimisation of a design.

3D printing is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model.

Electronics is the study of using various circuit components to make electronic circuits that perform a certain function or task. For example, we make a TV remote circuit which performs the function of changing the TV channels. Or we can make a circuit for flashing LEDs that turn ON and OFF the LEDs.