Within the programming aspects of the Computing National Curriculum, there are many concepts that are a requirement to teach, and which form the basis of programming. Using the Crumble and Crumble software, it is possible to cover many, if not all of these concepts.
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Sequence – How your code is run in order from top to bottom, running each line in turn.
Input and Output – Something taken in, or received by the processor/program, or something put out by the processor/program, often having a visible/audible effect.
Repetition (Iteration) – Instead of writing out the same code again and again, you can repeat chunks of it.
Selection – You may only want certain blocks of code to run if something happens (when a condition is met).
Variable – Something given a name that has a value which can change e.g. testResults = pass or X = 42 etc.
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