Course: Year 9 - Computer Science

These learning intentions help students in Computer Science stay focused and involved.
It is important for all students in Computer Science classes to open the learning intentions and the resources that are published and posted at the start of each class and then determine the success criteria to assess understanding.
When absent or away from school, all students are expected to self-help and complete the activities to help learn and keep ahead.


DATE	TOPIC	LEARNING INTENTIONS
Thu 12 Sept	Getting Connected and Getting Started	Click Here
Thu 6 Sept	Computional Thinking - Pictorials Olympdia Challenges	Click Here

Course Overview & Assessment
Course Overview & Assessment
- Course Description
  Students learn to be responsible users of digital technology, capable of developing coded solutions for specific needs. Students use computing to develop design ideas, solve problems, develop coded solutions, build automata using Arduino and collaborate online. In this 10 week course, students learn general-purpose scripted programming languages and use those skills to solve information problems and automate repetitive tasks. Our students explore a variety of coding approaches through a combination of coding interfaces with p5.js and Java, games design with graphics and sound, and robotic systems and control using extensive Arduino development kits.
- Unit Plan 2022-2023
- Learning Enrichment and Challenge
- Using and Applying Technology
- Thinking Effectively and Knowing How to Learn
- Knowledge, Understanding and Techniques
- Work Expectations in Computer Science
- Sample - Work Submission Format
- St Mary's Computing - Knowing How to Learn
Course Overview & Assessment
Computational Thinking Pictorials and Olympiad Challenges
Computational Thinking Pictorials and Olympiad Challenges
- Computational Thinking - Pictorials and Group Challenges
Computational Thinking Pictorials and Olympiad Challenges

Web Link

Web Link

Create Arduino circuits and building a Rover to program and escape a maze.

Assessment Notification:

Unit 3

Formative (10%): A range of robotics challenges with logbooks
Summative (90%):  A range of rover challenges to escape a maze.

Maze Rover Competition

Getting Started with Arduino
Instructions and Tasks	Getting Started
Competition Task Sheet	“Simon Said” Development Teams Challenge
Assessment Scores	Teams Result and Scoreboard
The Maze Challenges
Posters	Race Day, Rover Day & Independence Day
Task Sheet	Slides: ACS Rover Guide
Rover Assembly Guides
	Video - Robot Assembly - Rover V2
	Video - Robot Assembly - Gearbox and Chassis
	Rover Tank - Main Website - Documentation
	Difference between Analog and Digital Signals
Arduino Lessons
	Arduino Lessons 1-33
	Code for Lessons 1-33
	Code.zip Archive