Task: Learning Journal

Open your Learning Journal by clicking on the image below

Good notes will help you organise and process data and information

Task 1: Fill out your learning Journal.

Open your Learning Journal and complete the task below .

Note taking is a way of helping you to remember things you would otherwise forget. It also stimulates our critical thinking skills.

Remember! whenever you see the notes icon in a video this means the information is important and you should write it down.

An Algorithm is Like a Recipe

To get a computer to do something we have to tell it what to do. We do this by using a set of instructions. These instructions are called algorithms.

An algorithm has a defined outcome – a defined end. Algorithms can be written in many different ways. Each way has a different cost, different speed and requires different external hardware.

A Recipe

Task 2: Open your booklet.

Open your Algorithms booklet, and complete the task on page 4.

Task 3: Fill out your learning Journal.

Open your Learning Journal and complete the task below .

Algorithms in programming

You are creating an algorithm every time you write a program. You are creating a set of steps to perform a task. Before we create a computer program we write it out in one of two ways.

1. As a set of intructions like a recipe.

2. As a flowchart.

Different wasy to create an algorithm

Creating an algorithm

Task 3: Create an algorithm

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