Week 6

Different types of software

Introduction to computer programming concepts

● flowchart symbols as described in the British Computer Society’s BCS Glossary of Computing and ICT (ISBN 978-1-906124-00-7, or subsequent editions), including terminators, connectors, processes and decision boxes
● the purpose of simple processes represented in flowchart diagrams (decision making, finding largest/smallest number in a sequence, rates of discount/interest/payments)
● inputs and/or outputs from simple processes represented in flowchart diagrams, including currency conversions, converting marks to grades, calculating wages including overtime payments
● completion of flowchart diagrams with any missing decision statements and decision outcomes.
Recognise and understand:
● the terms used in a computer programs, specifically: declaration, input, output, assignment, variables (local and global) and constants, sub-routines, scope of variables
● the need to annotate code to allow for maintenance
● the use of data types, including character, string, integer, real and Boolean
● the use of data structures, including records and simple arrays.

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