VCE Applied Computing U1O1: Data types and data characteristics
Students learn the data types used in software tools (text, numeric, date/time and Boolean), how to choose one, and the characteristics of data and information such as size, structure, accessibility, clarity and context.
One content description from the full VCE Applied Computing - U1O1 - Data analysis journey. All 12 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (12)
1
Text data: character and string
2
Numeric data: integer
3
Numeric data: floating point
4
Date/time data
5
Boolean data
6
Choosing a data type for a value
7
Field data types in a database table
8
Characteristic of data: size
9
Characteristic of data: structure
10
Characteristic of data: accessibility
11
Characteristic of information: clarity
12
Characteristic of information: context
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