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DIG101A-2024

See also: teaching-implementation, Year 9/10 curriculum

Curriculum#

2 units

  • dig101a-2024-u1 - Enhancing Digital Solutions with OOP

    Introduction and application of OOP to enhance sustainability projects - dig101a-2024-u2 - Developing Complex Digital Solutions

    Application of advanced programming concepts to develop enhanced solutions

tools

  • Trinket.io

    Embeddable Python, including a block based - Thonny - simple IDE for learning Python

Delivery Plan#

Term 1#

Week Commencing Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3
1 22/01/2024 dig101a-u1l1
2 29/01/2024
3 05/02/2024
4 12/02/2024
5 19/02/2024
6 26/02/2024
7 05/03/2024
8 12/03/2024
9 19/03/2024
10 26/03/2024

Random thoughts and planning#

Teaching ideas#

Teaching tools#

  • ACARA assessment task uses Spyder IDE - the Conda distribution is likely more flexibl

Project ideas#

Systems development

  • Some sort of distributed, ?generative? art that includes user input and keeping safe?
  • Implementing a suite of animations/interactive systems for teaching mathematics (etc)
  • Streamlit/Javascript (Material) projects around public data - for the Lockyer Community

QCAA planning document suggests four units

  1. Websites

    Respond to brief "be creative" by designing website to "change the world"

    • user experience
    • data compression
    • content/presentation
    • Gamification

    Learn about gamification and design a user experience (and implement it) for a game. Implement it. Test and predict results.

  2. Big data

    Big data in the context of organisations...create a digital solution with big data.

  3. IoT

    Explore smart farming IoT etc...

Data

  • ACARA sample assessment focuses on the data aspect using a combination of sample task and assessment task using Excel and Python to examine data

Python programming ideas#

Looking for a creative coding idea with Python that starts with basic Python and touches on OOP.

From Grok to real programming#

Need to take basics in Grok into building actual Python programs - stepping stone to assessment

  • nbviewer - way to share Jupyter notebooks

    a web application that lets you enter the URL of a Jupyter Notebook file, renders that notebook as a static HTML web page, and gives you a stable link to that page which you can share with others. nbviewer also supports browsing collections of notebooks (e.g., in a GitHub repository) and rendering notebooks in other formats (e.g., slides, scripts). - Code club projects

    Includes a range of "cards"/projects specific to Python (etc). From Raspberry PI and provides a code editor that might be interesting. But these soon get fairly complicated and high level. Might be useful to guide what I show the students??

  • Code wars - Practice code katas

  • Code guppy more creative computing oriented, but with javascript - is a coding platform.

  • Project examples - list of ideas - some fairly boring

    But some - analyse my Netflix usage might be interesting. Does use Jupyter Notebooks, pandas so advanced. Very advanced. But there is some notion of objects with pandas???

Hour of Python - various short challenges and tutorials#

Curriculum resources#

Curriculum Content#

Summary

  • should develop and modify innovative digital systems
  • from analysis, design (user experience and implementation)
  • OSMEN with complex data - turning into document: content, structure and presentation
  • collaborate on and manage agile projects
  • apply privacy principles to manage digital footprints

Digital systems (K&U)#

AC9TDI10K01 - h/w and s/w manage, control, and secure access to data in networked digital systems

Data representation (K&U)#

  • HTML/CSS etc?? AC9TDI10K02 - represent documents online as content (text), structure (markup) and presentation (styling) and explain why such representations are important
  • AC9TDI10K03 - investigating simple data compression techniques

Acquiring, managing and analysing data (process & production skills)#

Echoes of OSMEN

  • AC9TDI10P01 develop techniques to acquire, store and validate data from a range of sources
  • AC9TDI10P02 analyse and visualise data interactively using a range of software - to draw conclusions, make predictions, trends and outliers
  • AC9TDI10P03 model and query entities

Investigating and defining#

Is this really how user stories should be developed?

  • AC9TDI10P04 define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by interviewing stakeholders to create user stories

Generating and designing#

Design a system of some sort both user experience and implementation - link with the user stories above.

  • AC9TDI10P05 design algorithms involving logical operators and represent them as flowcharts and pseudocode
  • AC9TDI10P06 validate algorithms and programs by comparing output against a range of test cases
  • AC9TDI10P07 design and prototype the user experience of a digital system
  • AC9TDI10P08 generate, modify, communicate and critically evaluate alternative designs

Producing and implementing#

  • AC9TDI10P09 implement, modify & debug modular programs, applying selected algorithms and data structures, including in an OOP language

Evaluating#

  • AC9TDI10P10 - evaluate existing and student solutions against design criteria, user stories, possible future impact and opportunities for enterprise

Collaborating and managing#

  • AC9TDI10P11 - select and use emerging digital tools and advanced features to create and communicate features to create & communicate interactive content for a diverse audience
  • AC9TDI10P12 - use simple program management tools to plan/manage individual and collaborative agile projects, accounting for risks and responsibilities.

Privacy and security#

  • AC9TDI10P13 - develop cyber security threat models and epxlore software, user or software supply chain vulnerabiity
  • AC9TDI10P14 - apply Australian Privacy Principles to critique and manage the digital footprint that existing systems and student solutions collect