Writing Frame
Use this guide to help you write your evaluation for Task 4b. This is only a guide - what you write depends upon your own personal code and solution. You don't have to answer all of the questions and you might even think of some of your own.
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Exemplar
This example is from the Summer 2024 ESP (the Recoats scenario).
It was awarded 5/6 for Programming Outcomes: the judgements reached are comprehensively well supported showing a detailed understanding of how the solution met the requirements of the set task brief and the needs of the users. Mentioning a graphical user interface as an improvement with regards to user needs might have attracted the extra mark (or his spelling might have let him down here)
The student was awarded 3/3 marks for future developments as he related his decisions directly to the requirements of the set task brief and how the improvements would enhance the usability of his program.
The average marks for this Task were 2.31/6 and 1/3.
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The image above shows the mark scheme for Task 4b. You need to relate your work to the set task brief (what you were asked to produce) and the needs of the users. Think about using a number input system for a menu rather than having the user write text. What benefits does this offer? What problems does it help avoid? Talk about how your program deals with user errors and what prompts you provide to the users so they know what to enter.
For future developments you can talk about how you could improve the structure of your code (e.g variable naming, comments, etc). You can also talk about the benefits of having a graphical user interface instead of a command prompt. The key is to relate your suggestions to how it would improve usability and make things easier for the end users and other developers who may have to edit your code later on.