Standards in this Framework
| Standard | Description |
|---|---|
| MSCSE.1 | The student will design and iteratively develop programs that combine control structures, including loops and conditionals. |
| MSCSE.2 | The student will investigate variables and data types, including simple operations on strings. |
| MSCSE.3 | The student will implement a program that accepts input values, stores them in appropriately named variables, and produces output. |
| MSCSE.4 | The student will document programs in order to make them easier to trace, test, and debug. |
| MSCSE.5 | The student will discuss issues of bias and accessibility in the design of existing technologies. |
| MSCSE.6 | The student will describe and explain the history of computer science, including naming significant historical figures and describing their impact on the field. |
| MSCSE.7 | The student will use flowcharts and/or pseudo code to address complex problems as algorithms. |
| MSCSE.8 | The student will incorporate existing code, media, and libraries into original programs, and give attribution. |
| MSCSE.9 | The student will systematically test and refine programs using a range of test cases. |
| MSCSE.10 | The student will model the role of protocols in transmitting data across networks and the Internet. |
| MSCSE.11 | The student will apply multiple methods of encryption to model the secure transmission of information. |
| MSCSE.12 | The student will explain how physical and digital security measures protect electronic information. |
| MSCSE.13 | The student will collect data using computational tools and transform the data to make it more useful and reliable. |
| MSCSE.14 | The student will refine computational models based on the data they have generated. |
| MSCSE.15 | The student will represent data using multiple encoding schemes. |
| MSCSE.16 | The student will discuss issues of bias and accessibility in the design of existing technologies. |
| MSCSE.17 | The student will compare tradeoffs associated with computing technologies that affect people's everyday activities and career options. |
| MSCSE.18 | The student will collaborate with many contributors through strategies such as crowdsourcing or surveys when creating a computational artifact or visualization. |
| MSCSE.19 | The student will describe tradeoffs between allowing information to be public and keeping information private and secure. |
| MSCSE.20 | The student will systematically identify and correct problems with computing devices and their components. |
| MSCSE.21 | The student will explore the relationship between hardware and software using he Internet of Things. |
| MSCSE.22 | The student will work in a team to distribute tasks; maintain a timeline; and use iterative design to solve problems, including peer review and feedback. |
| MSCSE.23 | The student will decompose problems and subproblems into parts to facilitate the design, implementation, and review of programs. |
| MSCSE.24 | The student will create procedures with parameters to organize code and make it easier to reuse. |
| MSCSE.25 | The student will recommend improvements to the design of computing devices, based on an analysis of how users interact with the devices. |
| MSCSE.26 | The student will design projects that combine hardware and software components to collect and exchange data. |
