Structured coding principles and modular program architecture steer Grade 10 Computer Science through Term 3, organising 33 laboratory lessons across 10 pages. Practical exercises guide students from algorithmic logic into hands-on scripting within high-level integrated development environments like Python IDLE.
The syllabus advances through six developmental phases under the Software Development strand:
- Foundational Concepts: contrasting programming paradigms from procedural to event-driven logic, charting language generations, and tracing low-level assembly instructions in week 1.
- Algorithm Design: drafting pseudocode routines, mapping standard flowchart symbols, and modelling pedestrian traffic signal sequences in week 2.
- Identifiers, Syntax, and Flow Control: declaring typed variables, managing input-output streams, setting operator precedence, and testing nested if-else conditionals and while loops spanning weeks 3 through 5.
- Data Collections and Modular Functions: manipulating indexed arrays, key-value dictionaries, and immutable tuples before defining reusable functions with parameters and local variable scopes during weeks 5, 6, and 8.
