Wednesday 20 May 2015

Robotics Lesson 4

Robotics Lesson 4
Your work for this lesson

1.  On Google Drawing, draw out the subroutine and final flowchart program for the Subroutines Challenge (Slide 4 on Teacher's presentation for this lesson).

2.  Share this correctly - Click Advanced - change Private to Anyone with the link - Click Done and copy/paste the link to your new Blog post for today.

3.  Title your new Blog post the same as this post.

4.  On your Blog post, underneath your link; 
  • explain what a subroutine is
  • when it is used
  • give 3 reasons why it's useful.
5.  Try to explain why using subroutines is useful in keeping programs short - talk about binary coding, what it is and how short programs use up less memory space.

Friday 8 May 2015

Robotics - Lesson 3

Robotics lesson 3 - Repetition
Your tasks for this lesson

1.  From slide 5 on the teacher's presentation, draw out the 2 flow charts.  Use Google Drawing for this as you've done before.  I don't mind if you put both drawings on the same document or do 2 separate ones!

2.  Share your drawings properly - click Share - click on Advanced - then change Private to Anyone with the Link - click Save or Done and then copy/paste the highlighted web link to your new Blog post for today.

3.  Title today's Blog post the same as this one.

4.  Underneath your pasted web link write the following notes:
  • Explain what repetition is in a computer program
  • Give 4 reasons why repetition is useful in a program
  • Give an example of a program where repetition is used
5.  When you have finished, click Publish!!