Algorithms and Programming
Julie Darling, D. J. Cools · 2024
Chapter 4 addresses algorithms and programming and includes information about sorting, pair programming, keyboarding skills, binary, ciphers, sequences, decomposition, the iterative process, and loops. This chapter includes activities, handouts, and scripts including The Debugging Song and a handout that explains how to use binary to write your name in “secret code”. Chapter 4 encompasses K-2 Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Standards 1A-AP-08: Model daily processes by creating and following algorithms (sets of step-by-step instructions) to complete tasks; 1A-AP-09: Model the way programs store and manipulate data by using numbers or other symbols to represent information; 1A-AP-10: Develop programs with sequences and simple loops, to express ideas or address a problem; 1A-AP-11: Decompose (break down) the steps needed to solve a problem into a precise sequence of instructions; 1A-AP-12: Develop plans that describe a program&s;s sequence of events, goals, and expected outcomes; 1A-AP-13: Give attribution when using the ideas and creations of others while developing programs; CSTA K-2 Standard 1A-AP-14: Debug (identify and fix) errors in an algorithm or program that includes sequences and simple loops; CSTA K-2 Standard 1A-AP-15: Using correct terminology, describe steps taken and choices made during the iterative process of program development.