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GAC Computing is a three-step ladder. GAC005 is about using computers for academic work, which means search literacy, collaborative writing, project management, presentations and video. GAC011 builds and publishes a real website with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. GAC017 goes behind it, into back-end programming, databases, SQL and a first look at data science.

Nothing here is answered on paper. Each module is judged on artefacts you produce, a set of slides, a website, a database with several tables, an analysis of a real dataset, so the work is done at a computer and submitted as files.

The three modules are cumulative in a literal sense. The site you design in GAC011 is the thing GAC017 gives a back end and a database, so a weak storyboard early costs time much later.

Presentation counts as much as code. Both design outcomes and communication outcomes are named in the modules, and marks are lost for a working page that nobody can navigate.

You can run the HTML, CSS, JavaScript and SQL exercises directly in this site's code playground, then take the same techniques into your own assessed project.

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  • 1

    GAC005 Computing I: Introduction to Computing for Academic Study

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    • 1.1 What this module is, and how it is marked
    • 1.1 Search literacy
    • 1.2 Collaborative writing
    • 1.3 Project management
    • 1.4 Creating effective presentations
    • 1.5 Enhancing your presentation
    • 1.6 The making of a video
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    GAC011 Computing II: Web Development

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    • 2.1 What this module is, and how it is marked
    • 2.1 Designing a website
    • 2.2 Creating a website using HTML
    • 2.3 Using CSS to enhance your website
    • 2.4 Adding interactivity with JavaScript
    • 2.5 Launching your website
    • 2.6 Social media marketing
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    GAC017 Computing III: Data Science and Web Apps

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    • 3.1 What this module is, and how it is marked
    • 3.1 JavaScript for a web app's back end
    • 3.2 Back-end programming
    • 3.3 Introduction to databases
    • 3.4 SQL for back-end programming
    • 3.5 Connecting JavaScript with SQL
    • 3.6 Data science

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