Explain what touch develop is to your students: TouchDevelop is a programming environment that runs on your mobile devices. You write scripts by tapping on the screen. You do not need a separate PC or keyboard. Scripts can perform various tasks similar to regular apps. Any TouchDevelop user can install, run, edit, and publish scripts. You can share your scripts with other people by publishing them to the TouchDevelop script bazaar, or by submitting them as an app to the Windows Store or Windows Phone Store.

Learning Objective LO: We’re learning to write simple procedures which make use of a sequence of instructions Lesson Objective: - Students are learning how to develop a simple application which will move characters up and down and it will introduce them to the touch environment.

Setting Up Touch Develop Go to www.touchdevelop.com Sign in using a windows live ID. Click on the launch button in the middle of the screen. Click on the skill level button. Use the menu, to change it and click on coder. Walk your students through how to get logged on to the touch develop environment.

Setting Up Touch Develop Click on the Create Script button Scroll down and select Blank Turtle Walk your students through how to get logged on to the touch develop environment.

What is a procedure!!! A procedure is a small piece of code that performs a single task. When you write programs it is important that you break large tasks up into a series of smaller procedures. LO: We’re learning to write simple procedures which make use of a sequence of instructions Discuss which your students the importance of using a procedure. They are a useful way of breaking down the large problem into smaller chunks. Most of the time you would use these to avoid having to repeat things over and over. For example, If I wanted to make two squares, I might create a procedure to save me re-writing the code.

Example: Procedure Explain the code above: The above code wants to draw two triangles. Rather than repeat the code, you can see it’s called on the code twice. The video on the next slide walks through how to create a simple procedure.

How to: Follow your guide with your teacher and you will be able to make your own procedures which will also save you a lot of time.

Main Task: - Your teacher has given you a work booklet to complete. Make sure that you evidence your code by taking screen shots and printing any evidence necessary. Get your students to work through the first week of exercises which will get them more comfortable with using the touch develop platform and it will get them more comfortable with loops.

What have you learnt? Your teacher has given you an assessment sheet. can you explain what you’ve learnt this lesson? Explain why you might use what you’ve learnt.