Designing Programs

 

Designing your programs! Go Full Screen to see in greater detail?

Designing your solutions

In time, you may write programs that involve very many lines of complicated code.

In these cases, it is a good idea to create some kind of program design where you write down the main stages of the program before you even open a programming language such as VB Express

 

 

 

 

 

What you have to do!

1. Watch Movie 15 which leads you through the process of creating a program design for a program that calculates the area of a triangle.
2. Tick off your Progress Grids.

 

Mark off Exercise 11 in your progress grids.

 

 

What you MAY have to do!

Ask your teacher whether you should do the following task.

 

Assessment 2 (A2).

Complete the assessment SCHOOL HEATING in your progress grids

 

 

What you should now be able to do!

• Create a design highlighting the main steps (top level) to cover in a program

• Create expansion steps for the top level items, where required

 

Continue to Exercise 12: The FOR NEXT Loop