ACARA 9-10 Digital Technologies: Writing input validation in Python

Students write existence, type and range checks, handle errors with try/except and combine them into reusable validation functions that keep bad data out of a program.

One content description (AC9TDI10P07, AC9TDI10P09) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 — Testing and Validating Programs journey. All 6 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.

Modules (6)

1 Existence checking in code 2 Type checking in code 3 Range checking in code 4 Error Handling – try/except basics 5 Input validation with a while loop 6 Combining validation checks in a validation function

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