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There are three main building blocks that all computer programs consist of: sequence, selection and iteration. This activity is designed to help you design and code your own sequences with python.

The colour of traffic lights follow a sequence that’s carefully planned. If the wrong lights show at the wrong time then you’ll probably agree that bad things will happen.

It’s just the same with lines of code: sometimes the order in which your lines of code run is really important. Sequence means running instructions in a set order to do what the program needs to do.

This activity gets you thinking about the order your instructions so that you can avoid common mistakes when writing python programs.

Contents:

Page 1: Intro

Page 2: The theory: learn what you need to know as fast as possible.

Page 3: Try it: try out and adapt some working python code snippets.

Page 4: Debug it: Learn how to find and fix common mistakes.

Page 5: Extend it: Choose a project idea to use your newfound python skills.

This activity is designed to help you learn how to recognise and fix errors that cause your program to crash when you’re writing python code.

The last few activities looked at how we can use variables and constants to store data and how to convert data between different data types.

There’s a good chance that you’ve come across some error messages whilst trying, debugging and extending your python code.

As mentioned before, there are three types of errors you’ll need to be able to find and fix: syntax errors, logical errors and runtime errors.

This activity focuses on runtime errors: what they are, how you can avoid them and how you can fix them.

Contents:

Page 1: Intro

Page 2: The theory: learn what you need to know as fast as possible.

Page 3: Try it: try out and adapt some working python code snippets.

Page 4: Debug it: Learn how to find and fix common mistakes.

Page 5: Extend it: Choose a project idea to use your newfound python skills.

This activity is designed to help you learn how to use python to write a program that uses and can convert between a range of different types of data.

The last few activities looked at how we can use variables and constants to store data so that we can process it and display it when the code runs.

All the examples we’ve looked at so far have used text data rather than numbers.

The next step is to learn how to write code that deals with both numbers and text, converting between and combining the two wherever necessary.

Contents:

Page 1: Intro

Page 2: The theory: learn what you need to know as fast as possible.

Page 3: Try it: try out and adapt some working python code snippets.

Page 4: Debug it: Learn how to find and fix common mistakes.

Page 5: Extend it: Choose a project idea to use your newfound python skills.