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Homework Returns!
Each of you will write a full summary of the notes for this Unit (Started in Week 9 last term).
Your notes and diagrams must include the following:
Data and information
• characteristics of data types and methods of
representing and storing text, sound and images
Digital systems
• functions and
capabilities of key hardware and software components of digital systems
required for processing,
storing and
communicating data and information
Approaches to problem
solving
• functional
requirements of solutions
• methods for creating
algorithms such as identifying the required output, the input needed to produce
the
output, and the
processing steps necessary to achieve the transformation from a design to a
solution
• suitable methods of
representing solution designs such as data dictionaries, data structure
diagrams, object
descriptions and
pseudocode
characteristics of
effective user interfaces, for example useability, accessibility, structure,
visibility, legibility,
consistency,
tolerance, affordance
• techniques for
manipulating data and information
• naming conventions
for files and objects
• testing and debugging techniques, including
construction of test data.
Due Monday 8th August!
Remember you have a TOPIC TEST on Tuesday 30 August
