MAKING OUR OWN CODES

Last week Mrs Ruawai gave us a challenge.  We have been busy learning how to write code to get from one place to another but this time... we had to draw in the characters and any obstacles that our character had to avoid.  Then we gave our maze to a friend to write the code for.  Our job was check that they got it right.

We LOVED it!

  

 

CODING & ALGORITHMS

We have been learning how to make an algorithm - this is a set of instructions.  We have to use arrows to REPRESENT the direction of which way we need to go.  It is really important that we check out algorithms (instructions) for any bugs before we bring it to the teacher for checking.  We need to DEBUG our work.  Thinking like this, is called Computational Thinking.

Here are a few photos of us thinking hard trying to figure out our algorithms.

        

RICH TASK - CODING

                  

On Friday, we completed a challenge.  It was a maze and we had to get the bee to the flowers on the maze.  The trouble was we had to watch out for the fly swat on the maze!

We had to make up a code to tell the bee which way to go.

CODING

As part of the new Digital Technology Curriculum, we are starting to look at how to code.  We were given a maze and we had to get the mouse to the cheese.  It was pretty easy to draw the way but writing the code for it, proved REALLY tricky.  

Lucky we are know how to persevere!

There was a huge variety of ways in which we recorded our codes.  

You might like to take to us about this at home.

DIGITAL CIRCUS

On Friday Miss Westcott from Digital Circus came to school.  Some of us got to the Hall to learn about Algorithms.  Algorithms are basically a list of instructions for a computer.  We got to play some coding games with Miss Westcott.