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    This document discusses algorithms and provides examples of how to represent algorithms using flowcharts. It includes the following key points: - An algorithm is a set of instructions to carry out a process and reach a solution. Examples include recipes, assembly instructions, and knitting patterns. - Algorithms can be represented visually using flowcharts, which show the sequence of instructions linked by arrows. Different shapes represent different instruction types like start/end, processes, decisions. - An example algorithm for making a cup of tea is provided, along with the steps to represent it as a flowchart in PowerPoint. Additional tasks involve adding a "predefined process" for filling the kettle and modifying the chart for making coffee.

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    This document discusses algorithms and provides examples of how to represent algorithms using flowcharts. It includes the following key points: - An algorithm is a set of instructions to carry out a process and reach a solution. Examples include recipes, assembly instructions, and knitting patterns. - Algorithms can be represented visually using flowcharts, which show the sequence of instructions linked by arrows. Different shapes represent different instruction types like start/end, processes, decisions. - An example algorithm for making a cup of tea is provided, along with the steps to represent it as a flowchart in PowerPoint. Additional tasks involve adding a "predefined process" for filling the kettle and modifying the chart for making coffee.

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    This document discusses algorithms and provides examples of how to represent algorithms using flowcharts. It includes the following key points: - An algorithm is a set of instructions to carry out a process and reach a solution. Examples include recipes, assembly instructions, and knitting patterns. - Algorithms can be represented visually using flowcharts, which show the sequence of instructions linked by arrows. Different shapes represent different instruction types like start/end, processes, decisions. - An example algorithm for making a cup of tea is provided, along with the steps to represent it as a flowchart in PowerPoint. Additional tasks involve adding a "predefined process" for filling the kettle and modifying the chart for making coffee.

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    Algorithms: Y10 Introduction

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    This document discusses algorithms and provides examples of how to represent algorithms using flowcharts. It includes the following key points: - An algorithm is a set of instructions to carry out a process and reach a solution. Examples include recipes, assembly instructions, and knitting patterns. - Algorithms can be represented visually using flowcharts, which show the sequence of instructions linked by arrows. Different shapes represent different instruction types like start/end, processes, decisions. - An example algorithm for making a cup of tea is provided, along with the steps to represent it as a flowchart in PowerPoint. Additional tasks involve adding a "predefined process" for filling the kettle and modifying the chart for making coffee.

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    Algorithms

    Y10 Introduction
    WHAT IS AN ALGORITHM?

    It is a set of instructions of how to carry out
    a process. An algorithm lists the steps
    that must be followed to complete the
    process and to reach the solution
    Examples of algorithms:

    A knitting pattern
    A set of instructions telling you how to put
    a kit together (eg. an IKEA kitchen unit)
    A recipe in a cook book

    An algorithm can be represented
    diagrammatically in the form of a flow
    chart.
    A flow chart
    A flowchart consists of a sequence of
    instructions linked together by arrows to
    show the order in which the instructions
    must be carried out.

    It provides detailed steps.

    Each instruction is put into a box. The boxes are
    different shapes depending upon what the
    instruction is.

    Process shapes
    START / END
    Human process
    i.e. you doing
    something!
    Input or output
    Query / question
    Printed output Save to file
    Yes
    No
    Remember not to create the flow
    chart in WORD

    Instead do this in POWER POINT
    and change

    File Page Layout to PORTRAIT

    Autoshapes has the shapes you
    need to use
    More shapes
    You can also use the following shapes:

    Predefined process

    Used for a sequence of instructions which is defined somewhere
    else (eg. in a subroutine)


    Connector
    to link with a different page or another part of the program



    (Note: all these shapes can be found under AutoShapes
    if you click the Drawing icon on your tool bar)

    Predefined
    process
    TASK 1
    MAKING A CUP OF TEA!
    The following list
    represents the steps
    needed in order to make
    a cup of tea. Put the list in
    the right order and
    produce an algorithm in
    POWERPOINT showing
    the processes and
    decisions you need to
    make.
    1. Take tea bag out of cup
    2. Boil the water
    3. Put tea bag in cup
    4. Add milk?
    5. Pour boiling water in
    cup
    6. Fill kettle
    7. Stir
    8. Ready
    9. Add sugar ?
    10. Fetch cup

    Answers follow
    The answers
    1. Fill kettle
    2. Boil the water
    3. Fetch cup
    4. Put tea bag in cup
    5. Pour boiling water in cup
    6. Take tea bag out of cup
    7. Add sugar ?
    8. Stir
    9. Add milk?
    10. Stir
    11. Ready
    START
    Fill kettle
    Boil the water
    Fetch cup
    Put tea bag in cup
    Pour boiling water in cup
    Take tea bag out of cup
    Add sugar ?
    Stir in sugar
    Add milk?
    Pour in milk
    Ready
    N
    N
    Now add the shapes
    Skills in Powerpoint to create your
    algorithm.
    To tidy up the whole column
    select all (drag around all shapes)
    Go to DRAW
    Select ALIGN or DISTRIBUTE
    To change
    this to .
    START
    Fill kettle
    Boil the water
    Fetch cup
    Put tea bag in cup
    Pour boiling water in cup
    Take tea bag out of cup
    Add sugar ?
    Stir in sugar
    Add milk?
    Pour in milk Ready
    N
    N
    To this
    but take care as it can
    mess up the side sections!
    TASK 2

    A PREDEFINED PROCESS
    In order to carry out no. 8 in the list above,
    you will need to instruct the user how to fill
    a kettle.
    (a) Produce a set of instructions called
    Filling a kettle and then
    (b) update your algorithm for task 1 to
    include this predefined process.
    TASK 3
    MAKING A CUP OF COFFEE!
    How would your algorithm change for
    making a cup of coffee instead of tea?
    Amend your algorithm in Task 2 (b) in
    order to produce a new diagram.

    Now try to create one on a PC
    This should always be done in
    POWERPOINT..


    NEVER, EVER, EVER in WORD!

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