[Year 12 SofDev] Sensorlight programming practice exercise

[Mark KELLY]

Thanks Heath.

I'd like us to collate a big collection of neat little programming tasks.
We can all chip in.


On 5 May 2011 15:07, Matheson, Heath A
<Matheson.Heath.A at edumail.vic.gov.au>wrote:

>  A great task Mark,
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> They got quite a kick out of completing it. Here is a python/Tkinter
> solution.
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> Heath
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> *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
> *To:* Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Year 12 SofDev] Sensorlight programming practice exercise
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>
> 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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Mark Kelly
Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
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kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
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