A little less comfortable

Content

There are two very important parts of part B. First of all, you should have very specific, well-written success criteria. These success criteria will drive your project. Your success criteria will also help you evaluate your project. In the front of your mind must be: are these success criteria clearly going to solve the problem? The second important part of part B are the diagrams you develop to describe how your solution will work. This is a time when you start to think about how your solution will work. Flowcharts are powerful tools to imagine the logic in a program. A good flowchart can easily be converted into a computer program. 

Process

You must carefully link your success criteria to your research. Every success criteria should be linked to some research you have done during section A. Your diagrams should begin as overviews, or very broad generalizations of how your program works. Then you should slowly become more specific. The magic moment comes when you show a friend a diagram and they can explain (very specifically) how your program works. 

When you first start creating diagrams you will find it challenging. It can be difficult to create the right level of detail and learn how to visually represent your program. This is a skill that needs practice, practice, practice. 

Product

You should have:

1. 5 to 9 very specific success criteria
2. 5 to 9 very specific diagrams

A little more comfortable

Content

There are two very important parts of part B. First of all, you should have very specific, well-written success criteria. These success criteria will drive your project. Your success criteria will also help you evaluate your project. In the front of your mind must be: are these success criteria clearly going to solve the problem? The second important part of part B are the diagrams you develop to describe how your solution will work. This is a time when you start to think about how your solution will work. Flowcharts are powerful tools to imagine the logic in a program. A good flowchart can easily be converted into a computer program. 

One of the big differences we have between more comfortable and less comfortable is the types of diagrams you make. There are many different types of diagrams, and each diagram helps us to understand a different part of your program. This is really hard to get right and takes lots of practice.

Process

You must carefully link your success criteria to your research. Every success criteria should be linked to some research you have done during section A. Your diagrams should begin as overviews, or very broad generalizations of how your program works. Then you should slowly become more specific. The magic moment comes when you show a friend a diagram and they can explain (very specifically) how your program works. 

One of the differences between good success criteria and great success criteria is how tightly focused the success criteria are on solving the problem. It is also important you have challenging success criteria. 

When you first start creating diagrams you will find it challenging. It can be difficult to create the right level of detail and learn how to visually represent your program. This is a skill that needs practice, practice, practice. 

Product

You should have:

1. 5 to 9 very specific success criteria
2. 5 to 9 very specific diagrams - the more specific the better