WGJS Magazine 2018 WGJS 2018 School Magazine | Page 16

Computer
Report
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Do you understand this? If not, speak to a Grade 7
learner. This year, they learnt to code using Python
Code. This is one of the “languages” for computer
programming that programmers in the industry use.
Our Grade 7s have shown immense perseverance,
problem solving and logical thinking as they learnt to
work in this new language. With coding being our focus
for the year in computers, we have had fun problem
solving on coding programs from Grades 2 – 7.
Our younger grades have learnt to code using the more
“hands on” BeeBots and STEM mouse.
It hasn’t all been hard work though, we have also learnt
to program using robots. During our robotics unit,
our girls had fun “instructing” BeeBots, Sphero, Lego
Mindstorms, Codybot and a number of other fun robots
to follow routes or do tasks.
As Steve Jobs once said “Everyone should learn how to
code, it teaches you how to think.”
Mrs Katrina McFarlane
Back (L – R): Isabella Flint, Carys Jordaan, Riley Wesson
Front: Mackenzie Maggott, Mr Anton Moisey, Mrs Katrina McFarlane,
Caitlin Pillay
Absent: Chloë Kröhnert
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