Computer Programming 11

Competencies

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Understanding context

Conduct user-centred research to understand design opportunities and barriers

Defining

Establish a point of view for a chosen design opportunity
Identify potential users, intended impact, and possible unintended negative consequences
Make inferences about premises and constraints that define the design space

Ideating

Identify gaps to explore a design space
Generate ideas and add to others’ ideas to create possibilities, and prioritize them for prototyping
Critically analyze how competing social, ethical, and sustainability considerations impact designed solutions to meet global needs for preferred futures
Work with users throughout the design process

Prototyping

Identify and apply sources of inspiration and information
Choose an appropriate form, scale, and level of detail for prototyping, and plan procedures for prototyping multiple ideas
Analyze the design for the life cycle and evaluate its impacts
Construct prototypes, making changes to tools, materials, and procedures as needed
Record iterations of prototyping

Testing

Identify feedback most needed and possible sources of feedback
Develop an appropriate test of the prototype
Collect feedback to critically evaluate design and make changes to product design or processes
Iterate the prototype or abandon the design idea

Making

Identify appropriate tools, technologies, materials, processes, and time needed for production
Use project management processes when working individually or collaboratively to coordinate production

Sharing

Share progress while creating to increase opportunities for feedback
Decide on how and with whom to share or promote their product, creativity, and, if applicable, intellectual property
Consider how others might build upon the design concept
Critically reflect on their design thinking and processes, and identify new design goals
Assess ability to work effectively both as individuals and collaboratively while implementing project management processes

Apply safety procedures for themselves, co-workers, and users in both physical and digital environments
Identify and assess skills needed for design interests, and develop specific plans to learn or refine them over time

Explore existing, new, and emerging tools, technologies, and systems to evaluate their suitability for their design interests
Evaluate impacts, including unintended negative consequences, of choices made about technology use
Analyze the role technologies play in societal change
Examine how cultural beliefs, values, and ethical positions affect the development and use of technologies

Students are expected to know the following:

design opportunities
design cycle
problem decomposition
structures within existing code
ways to modify existing code to meet a particular purpose
strategies to predict effects of code modification
pair programming
programming language constructs to support input/output, logic, decision structure, and loops
requirements of a problem statement
ways to transform requirements into algorithms
translation of design specifications into source code
tools to aid in the development process
pre-built libraries and their documentation
inline commenting to document source code
use of test cases to detect logical or semantic errors
computational thinking processes
appropriate use of technology, including digital citizenship, etiquette, and literacy