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Session 140

2026-11-02 · 2026-W45 ✓ reviewed

What happened

Learner checked 166 by adding back and, after a short store-vs-print reteach, wrote a 5/5 typed selection program storing in a named variable. Mon CS block, opened 13:09, closed 14:04. 6 items set, 6 answered, 0 blank: 166 check 128+32+4+2=166 right; line 2 prints? 'no' (second half of that question dropped); what line 2 does: off-target; what the box holds: right; which line displays: 'line 5' right; program 5/5 unaided (no hints), typed, 24 min against a 6 min guide. Stopped at the end of the block: why-hex cold, binary-to-decimal with running total and the handwritten while loop not reached.

Planned next

FIRST, the three jobs not reached on 2 Nov: why we use hex, from memory, no sentence shown; then one binary-to-decimal with 5 or more ones, adding one number per line, then adding again as the check; then the while loop on paper from a one-line brief, no checklist, photo time agreed (owed since 29 Oct). Also ask a fresh store-in-a-variable program cold, handwritten, with a different context.

Unfinished unfinished

Not reached by the end of the block: why-hex asked cold; binary to decimal with 5+ ones and a written running total plus re-add; handwritten while loop from a one-line brief with no scaffold (owed since 29 Oct).

Unfinished: Not reached by the end of the block: why-hex asked cold; binary to decimal with 5+ ones and a written running total plus re-add; handwritten while loop from a one-line brief with no scaffold (owed since 29 Oct). (D01, D02, P05)

Resolved

What this session changed

TopicNameChangeEvidence recorded
P03Developing → Developing2 Nov: typed 5-mark award program unaided: if/elif/else, boundaries <50, <=79, else all right; stored in award on all three branches, print(award) once after. 5/5. Followed a store-vs-print reteach 13 min earlier in the same session, so not a cold check.
P02Secure → Secure2 Nov: score = int(input()) written unprompted with no checklist on a typed program; variable names score and award say what they hold.
P14Developing → Developing2 Nov: input read and award output once at the end of a typed program, unaided; 5/5 item. No prompt text on input (not required by the brief).
P17Developing → Developing2 Nov: int() on numeric input unprompted before comparing, typed program, unaided.
D02Gap → Gap2 Nov: 166 check line 128+32+4+2=166 right, 4 values added correctly. Written as one line, not one number per line as asked. Stays gap: the 5+ ones item with a written running total was not reached.