[Gayle Alexander]

02/06/2014 at 11:13 am

Has anyone got any examples of structured diagrams at N4 level at all? I’m in the middle of creating a booklet for N4 pupils and wished to include examples for a few of the programs but am not 100% sure what the SQA are expecting. The Walshe book has a couple of diagrams which I think are quite complex and contain Haggis but I’ve not really seen any more. I’ve attached an example though the diagram in the textbook also contains a box at the start labelled “Initialise” and I’m not sure what the purpose of this is (declaring variables or assigning values to variables was the only thing I could think of).

[Peter Thoresen]

02/06/2014 at 2:06 pm

Hi

There are some new materials from Dundee at http://www.itrackls.co.uk/dcc/dccindex.html that include some structure diagram examples.

The examples are in the context of making breakfast rather than programming, but should be enough to get the gist over to pupils.

[speirs]

02/06/2014 at 7:37 pm

Hi Gayle

I have not been able to see your example but I have always seen intialisation as assigning a null value to a variable at the start of a program. I have not looked in detail at NAt 4, but can’t imagine they would want this level as it was not in previous INT2 level. Declaring a variable for has an equivelant efffect. Whilst it may be efficient programming pupils often find the concept of initalising very confusing.

Re Structure diagrams attached documents are some old examples I have used that could be suitable at that level.