J276 Programming Project Preparation (Python v3) OCR GCSE Computer Science

I’ve taken the maths quiz project from OCR in 2015 and used the new J276 programming project template to create a model write up for the students to see best practice.

This shows success criteria, flow chart, pseudocode, testing during development, final testing (including an example of validating the code for one of the test sections) and evaluation. Please note the final testing table is not fully completed as it was to model to the students how to do it. The write up is for the first task only (as an exemplar) but all the python tasks needed for this project are included.

I worked with my year 10 students (who have completed my python programming booklets in year 9 - also on TES) to learn some extra programming techniques through the maths quiz tasks. They have really enjoyed the lessons and learned a lot. They will be completing the programming project a little later in year 10.

I also used these preparation tasks with my year 11s before getting them started on the J276 programming project.

I was unable to upload python files, I have copied them and pasted them into a word document, I then copied and pasted them back to python to test and it seems to pick up the formatting - so it should be a paste, copy and go…

This has been such a good prep for my students to refresh their programming skills for the project. We are completing Task 2, of the current J276 programming project tasks, which works really nicely with this unit of work.