LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

Fundamentals of structured
programming

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

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• Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it

• Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.

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The best formed and most readable code…

• If you want to be a good programmer (and get good marks in the

exam) then you have to ensure that your code is easily read by other
people.

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

Things to do when coding

1. Use procedures that execute a single task.

2. Use procedures / functions with interfaces
3. Use sensible variable data types
4. Meaningful Identifier names
5. Use sensible procedure / function names.
6. Stick to one naming convention
7. Don’t make names too long
8. Indent your work
9. Use comments

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

Indenting your work example

• A lot of programming environments help to indent your code

automatically and you should be able to find one for the language you
are using.

• Indenting helps people to read and understand your code quickly as it

clearly shows the structure of functions, procedures, selection and
iteration statements.

• For example the following could be hard to read:

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code
Indenting your work example

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

Commenting example

• Some of the best written code doesn't need comments because if you
have structured it correctly and used all the proper naming
conventions it should be pretty easy to read. However for the code
you are writing you should put some comments to explain what each
section does.

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

The advantages of the structured

approach
• Easy to read and fix code

• Problems broken down into easy to manage chunks

• Procedures / Functions are reusable, you can use them in different

projects.

• You can test modules individually.

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

What might be considered wrong about

the use of this subroutine?

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Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

• The sub routine is performing multiple function: it calculates the total

AND the average.
• Functions/procedures should only perform one task at a time. You
could replace the above with two subroutines:
• calcAvg
• calcTotal

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

• List three reasons for using functions and procedures to structure your
code:

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

• List three reasons for using functions and procedures to structure your
code:

• Answer :
• You can re-use the code
• You can test parts of the code individually
• The code is easier to read and understand

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code
Give three structured programming
techniques that could be used to improve the
code…

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

• Correct use of indentation

• Sensible variable names Eg cheesy used to store the age.

• Use comments

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

Activity 01

• Read and complete the tasks from pages 28 -34 and answer all task

• Self-assess using answer sheet and make improvements in purple

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code
Activity 2

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

Structure programming review - Activity

• Pass your code on to a peer.

• Your peer will now respond and give advice based on the structure
programming

• Add their feedback to your class notebook and make the

improvements

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

Challenge Activity

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

Challenge Extension

• Extend your program further by creating a user profile. The users

details will be recorded in an array and the functions you have created
can be applied to populate certain fields in the record. Such as BMI.

• The rest of the record should include; Name, Address, BMI, height,
weight and goal.

• HINT:- You will need to use a structure

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.
LO: Structure programming, the concepts of efficient code

Plenary

• Outline 3 ways to structure your code.

• Give the benefit of each of these.

• How would each of these be a benefit is industry?

Success Criteria
Explain what is structured programming and the reasons for it
Demonstrate how to write good, efficient and easy to read code.