Digital Technology

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Students enter a five-week annual coding competition run by the University of Sydney to advance their programming skills. They will also learn HTML – the language behind websites. Students will continue their journey from Year 9 and build a 2D computer game from the ground up. This includes higher-level programming concepts than those covered in Year 9 Digital Technology, such as:

• Selecting different types of data structures, such as arrays and dictionaries
• Defining classes that represent the attributes and behaviour of objects in the real world
• Using visualisation software tools to identify patterns and relationships between sets of data and information
• Designing algorithms to solve real-world problems and use flow charts and structured English (pseudocode)
• Considering different algorithms and selecting the most appropriate based on the type of problem 

Assessment

Tasks may include:

• Programming skills and applications tasks (including recognition of achievement in the competition)
• Project folio including evidence of the planning, production and testing of an educational computer game
• Completion of an HTML online course.  Opportunity to enter WebComp (a separate national competition in website design)
• Written or multimodal evaluation 

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