What is an algorithm?

Sunday 12 October 2014

Algorithms are a set of rules or a process.  This is a hard concept to understand when you are 5 years old but we have started to think about how we can learn about them in Year 1.  We can follow instructions by listening to them or by reading them but if a computer needs instructions then it needs programming.  Here is our first attempt at programming – giving Beebots (half bee, half robot!) a series of instructions.

Moortown Primary School, Leeds
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