Cambridge ICT Starters On Track Stage 2 Fourth Edition
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Title: Cambridge ICT Starters On Track Stage 2 Fourth Edition
ISBN: 9781108463553
2. Synopsis
Cambridge ICT Starters On Track Stage 2 introduces students aged 7 to 14 to real-world, purposeful digital design and programming. Completely updated for the latest Cambridge ICT Starters syllabus, this practical book features step-by-step guidance on advanced technology concepts. Students learn how to build websites, produce digital videos, manage data systems, and write conditional logic code through practical assignments—like planning a localized computer network or designing an interactive virtual pet simulator.
3. Table of Contents / Chapters
Module 1: Programming for a purpose (Scratch 3 logic, inputs, outputs, and variables)
Module 2: Website design for a purpose (Notepad, HTML structures, layout, and hyperlinking)
Module 3: Networks for a purpose (Routers, internet infrastructure, and planning data systems)
Module 4: Video or animation for a purpose (Pencil 2D, Audacity, storyboarding, and video rendering)
4. Learning Outcomes
✔️ Program Optimization & Debugging: Master structural logic sequences like selection, loop variables, and input handling to create interactive multi-level games.
✔️ Web Architecture Basics: Learn the foundation of text-based layout planning, organizing navigation panels, and embedding media assets using clean, semantic tags.
✔️ System Infrastructure Competence: Understand data networks, identifying hardware nodes like switches, lines, and routers within structured layout blueprints.
✔️ Multimedia Production Workflow: Gain technical proficiency in storyboarding, capturing physical media clips, manipulating timeline audio tracks, and exporting structured MP4 assets.
5. About the Author/Writer
Written by prominent educational computing specialists Victoria Ellis and Sarah Lawrey, with technical editing and consultation by veteran ICT authority Doug Dickinson. Their curriculum design breaks complex development pipelines into highly visual, child-accessible milestone steps.
6. About the Publisher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
History & Profile: Founded in 1534 under a royal charter granted by King Henry VIII, Cambridge University Press is the world's oldest publishing house. It is globally famous for setting rigorous academic standards and providing world-class educational pathways like IGCSE, Checkpoint, and O/A Levels.
Global Location: University Printing House, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom.