[Year 12 SofDev] Sensorlight programming practice exercise

[Matheson, Heath A]

A great task Mark,

They got quite a kick out of completing it. Here is a python/Tkinter solution.

Heath

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2011 3:04 PM
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Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Sensorlight programming practice exercise

Hi folk.

I'm always on the lookout for small but challenging programming tasks for kids as they start out with SD.  Here's one I made up as I noticed my sensor light turning on at home.  Literally a lightbulb moment  :-)

The functional requirements seem simple, but the algorithm challenged them. The kids spent two periods having fun working on it.

Task, and sample VB2010 Express solution (zipped) are attached - I haven't distributed a VB2010 project before, so Dog only knows if I packaged the right files.
Google won't let me mail .zip files, so you need to rename .zipped as .zip  :-[

Cheers

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