Small Basic - Lesson 5 - Turing Test

**Small Basic - Lesson 5 **- Turing Test

In this series of lessons we will take pupils from no experience of Small Basic to a good understanding with the skills to solve problems and think algorithmically in Small Basic. Students should enter this scheme of work with a basic understanding of computational thinking, having some graphical based language experience such as Scratch, Kodu, HourOfCode, etc. In addition to other expectations, this lesson benefits from being proceeded with a lesson on Flowcharts or Pseudocode. Pupils recap their planning skills before coding.

This is particularly useful for meeting the needs of teaching a text based programming language based on (KS3 in England / BGE in Scotland) outcomes and is a strong foundation/scaffolding to supporting students to program in Python in following units.

For the less confident teacher I have included a bunch of pre-written Small Basic programs to demonstrate WAGOLL.

In this lesson:
Recap knowledge from previous lesson.
Introduce Alan Turing and the Turing Test.
Demonstrate some chatbots and discuss their business use case.
Discuss IFs and how they behave like a rollercoaster loop.
Demonstrate TextWindow.Read()
Create basic responses to inputs.
Have a go at talking to a advanced ChatBot
Challenge pupils to create a simple Turing Test Chatbot