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The Emotion Machine
By creating their own paper ‘robot face’, students learn about how high-level language is translated into low-level machine instructions. The resource, created by Paul Curzon and Peter McOwan of the CS4FN team, covers sequencing in programs, compilers and interpreters. A detailed instruction sheet guides the teacher to touch upon the areas of computational thinking such as abstraction. Students create simple machine codes to allow the robot face to show different emotions – decomposing complex high-level statements (emotions) into sets of simple instructions for individual face parts. Extension activities and further reading are also suggested.
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