Coding and Robotics Textbook for Grade 8

Thirty chapters (431 pages) covering all aspects of the proposed CAPS curriculum for Coding and Robotics in grade 8. Circuits with servo motors, potentiometers, a joystick, and various sensors with complete step by step instructions for micro:bit and Arduino; Cyber security, software threats, email and internet threats, and biometric authentication; In Excel, sort, and filter, the count if and sum if functions, conditional formatting, and charts; In HTML hyperlinks, style sheets, classes, and IDs, text and font styles, and adding videos to web pages; Binary numbers and the ASCII table; Logic gates; In Python: mathematical operations with variables, user input and typecasting, math functions, conditional statements, string functions, list methods, and the turtle graphics library; In Sketchup, relate tools like equal, concentric, parallel, perpendicular, and drawing linkages and gear assemblies; All the files needed for activities are available online. Teachers’ guidelines available from Snapplify ISBN 9781776430741. Printed copies available from www.textbooks4u.co.za