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Year 8

Introduction to Python programming

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This unit introduces pupils to text-based programming with Python. Pupils start with programs involving input and output, and gradually move on to using arithmetic operations, randomness, selection, and iteration. Pupils will consolidate these skills in a project at the end of the unit.

Having built confidence with key programming constructs through block-based programming, pupils are now ready to apply these skills in a text-based language. This shift helps them understand how the same principles of sequence, selection, iteration, and variables are expressed in a different environment, developing their precision and problem-solving. Learning this now prepares pupils to take on more complex challenges, such as processing and analysing data stored in structures, which they will explore in later units.

  1. Writing a text-based program
  2. Working with numerical inputs
  3. Using selection
  4. Selection with multiple paths
  5. Iteration using while loops
  6. Building a program using control structures
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