ACARA 7-8 Digital Technologies: Variables, data types and input in JavaScript
Students store, calculate with and combine values using variables, data types, operators and prompt() input, and track how variable values change.
One content description (AC9TDI8P06, AC9TDI8P09) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 7–8 — Programming with Control Structures and Functions (JavaScript) journey. All 18 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (18)
1
Variables: let, const, var
2
Camel casing
3
Reassigning a let variable
4
const for values that never change
5
Basic Data Types
6
The number data type
7
The boolean data type: true and false
8
typeof Operator
9
Basic Arithmetic
10
More Arithmetic: % and **
11
Order of operations with brackets
12
Shorthand updates: +=, -= and ++
13
String Concatenation
14
Template Literals
15
Reading user input with prompt()
16
Type Conversion
17
Visual blocks to JavaScript: say, ask and variables
18
Tracking variable values on paper
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