Decomposition
Lesson Instructions
Watch and follow the YouTube video, the lesson contains three parts:
Key Information and content - all you need to do here is watch and listen. We recommend you take some notes for this one!
Learning activity - You are to complete an activity that requires you to decompose a game and identify the component parts.
Consolidation - these are past exam question and are for deliberate practice to check your understanding.
Decomposition Full Lesson Video.mp4Task - Decomposition Activity
Task - Exam Questions - Deliberate Practice
Mark Scheme
Question 1 (a)
Breaking a problem down into smaller components parts
NOTE: answer needs to have bold parts of the above, or similar wording.
Question 1 (b)
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Makes problems easier to solve
People can work on different parts of a much larger problem...
...this reduces the time it takes for software to be created as it can happen simultaneously
Encourages modular program development, meaning component parts can be reused in other programs / other parts of the same program.
Question 1 (c)
Input
Number of hours and minutes
Output
Number of minutes