Computer Science Getting Ready for Year 10 Year

Computer Science Getting Ready for Year 10

Year 10 – What do I need to do? • A lot of theory and programming knowledge you will know from your lessons. • Within in this document you will have some tasks to complete. • To be best prepared for the course you need to complete the following tasks: • Complete a programming Unit • Complete the research tasks

Programming Task - Code. Cademy • Click on the image to the right or visit: https: //www. codecademy. com/catalog/subject/all • Sign up for a Code. Cademy account (You can use your Google login from school) • Complete the Python course: https: //www. codecademy. com/learn-python • Try to complete a minimum 3 to 4 tasks a week. • Try to spend at least twenty minutes per day on this.

Research Task 1 Vicky has been on holiday and has taken lots of photos. The memory in her camera is now full and she needs to transfer her photos to an external secondary storage device. Identify the three common storage technologies Vicky can choose from. • Response -

Research Task 2 Find an example of a LAN (Local Area Network) that you have used. • Response -

Research Task 3 part 1 What is a URL? http: //www. bbc. co. uk/guides/z 2 nbgk 7 • Response -

Research Task 3 part 2 What is the purpose of an IP address? http: //www. bbc. co. uk/guides/z 3 tbgk 7 • Response -

Research Task 4 Identify four events that take place during the fetch-execute cycle. https: //www. bbc. com/education/guides/zmb 9 mp 3/revision/1 https: //www. bbc. com/education/guides/z 2342 hv/revision/1 • Response -