Compiled Learning Objectives

🧩 Percentages

• Construct simple expressions to represent a calculation

🪄 Declaring functions

• Label and describe the syntactic features of a function declaration

🎮 Playing computer

• Analyse each line in a given program and state what the line does when the program executes
• Differentiate between a function declaration and a function invocation
• Define a frame
• Describe what happens when a function is called
• Differentiate between a local frame and a global frame

🔭 Scope

• Define scope
• Explain what happens when a variable is referenced out of scope

📤 Returning from a function

• Identify the return value at a call site given its function declaration
• Log the return value of a function
• Given a short program, state the number of times a given function is called

♻️ Reusing the function

• Evaluate a function expression
• Call a function with an input in REPL

🏷️ Parameterising a function

• Define a parameter
• Identify the value assigned to a parameter when a function is invoked
• Differentiate between parameters and arguments
• Invoke a given function with an appropriate argument to produce some target output
• Reuse code to perform the same calculation with different inputs

Prep Roles in Tech

• Identify the different roles in the tech industry

Roles in the tech industry

• Demonstrate your knowledge about the roles in tech

Playing computer

• Play computer with a few short programs to work out what happens when they run
• Keep track of your place in a running program using frames
• Describe what happens when a function is called during runtime
• Check your understanding using an application like the Python visualiser