Massey High School Massey High School

Level 3 Computer Science UE Approved

TCCOUE
Course Description

Teacher in Charge: J. Gottschalk.

Recommended Prior Learning

A minimum of 12 credits in COM201 plus a pass in Level 2 literacy or with agreement of the HOD.  If you have not done COM201 but have very strong Mathematics skills / prior programming experience, please talk to us!


This course is for students who want to study computing at tertiary level. 

For the programming assessment, students will use project management skills and a process of iterative development to create a complex program in Python which includes a graphical user interface. 

 For the database topic, students will learn how to create a MySQL database that is accessed via a web interface coded in PHP, HTML & CSS. Students will have the opportunity to implement complex procedures in this project.

You can take both COM301 and DTI301.  For COM301, the web / database standard is optional (ie: our priority is to complete the programming standards and the external).  For students who don't take DTI301, completing the database standard is a great way to earn an additional eight credits.  The web/ database standard is offered as part of DTI301

For the external assessment students learn about two areas in Computer Science. These change from year to year but are always fascinating.

This course is on the approved University Entrance list and the standards are also included in Auckland University’s ‘Table B’.

METHODS OF ASSESSMENT
This course is solely Achievement Standards which includes one external assessment.

Faculties:

Digital Technologies


Assessment Information

Note that 91902 (database) and 91903 (Web) are optional and are completed after the programming standards (91906 and 91907). Students doing DTI do the Web / Database standards as part of that course.



			
					
					Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
										
Students need headphones that must be brought to every lesson so that they can access the sound associated with the video tutorials.  The headphones need to be able to plug in to a standard headphone jack so that they will work on our system without any connection issues.  



Optional: Students are welcome to use their own devices to complete work both in class and at home.  They would need a windows / mac (chromebooks are not sufficient for this course).