![]() A few weeks spent on opening and closing files, reading data from them and the like and we are done with round one of teaching the basics they need to know for the syllabus. In January, we need to look at records, then functions and procedures and a bit on recursion. We shall spend the rest of this term playing with arrays. By the end of the first year, I want the pupils to be able to confidently write their own computer games. I intend covering as much of the Greenfoot textbook as possible and as much of the Programming unit (OCR Syllabus F452) in year 1, and then the theory parts (F451) in year 2. The broad plan for the first year is to program program program by teaching pupils how to write computer games. We may dabble with other languages and IDEs. ![]() We will be working from the Michael Kolling Greenfoot textbook and using resources from the Greenfoot website. The main IDE we will be using is Greenfoot (excellent and free). I expect them to do about an hour or so a week of homework. Pupils on this Computing course will have three 50 minute lessons a week in both year 10 and 11 one lesson is intended to be a pure theory lesson and they will also have a double lesson lasting 1 hour 40 minutes in a computer suite. They have all had some experience writing code in previous years they have used Scratch to write a shoot-em game, VB.net to produce a web browser, Logicator for flow charts and html to produce web sites. The pupils are all girls in a high-performing grammar school. ![]() There is no coursework in the OCR AS computing course (which ironically means we will be able to do more practical work as we won't have to jump through hoops). Just under 50% of the pupils opted to do this course when they had to make their choices at the end of Year 9. Pupils will study this course over two years it is normally done in one year by 16-17 year olds but given the excellent students we have here, I think they will cope. We now offer OCR AS Computing to our KS4 pupils as an alternative to the GCSE ICT course.
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