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Session 102

2026-10-13 · 2026-W42 ✓ reviewed

What happened

Code Lab 'Translate the pseudo-code', owed since 5 Oct, was passed on run 1 once reading the exam's pseudo-code had been taught; while True was explained correctly cold for the first time. Ran 14:22-15:00 against block 17; she said 'log it' at 15:00 once told the block was over. Cold, one per message: which line can stop the loop -> 3; open sentence on while True -> repeats forever, right (wrong cold 6 and 9 Oct); break -> stops the loop; 2-mark why-hex, no cue -> 1/2, no storage idea; frame -> right. Code Lab plan line asked for at 14:31: the gate failed - a task was set before the teaching. The task is in AQA pseudo-code (A04, not started); three replies in 11 minutes missed. A planning fault, not evidence against her. Arrow, USERINPUT, OUTPUT then taught from a table: teach 2/2, confirm 2/2; Code Lab on her own passed run 1 (practice run 85; code matches the app's stored model); fresh 2-mark typed item 2/2. 14 items set, 14 attempted, 0 blank: 10 right first time, 1 partial, 3 off-target, all before the teaching. Not run: paper trace from headings, binary-to-decimal with working unasked, binary addition with the overflow sentence. Nothing handwritten. Sessions 73, 79, 92 stay open: Code Lab done, trace and binary items not. Topic evidence and the lesson review follow in separate calls because the single call returned Bad Gateway twice.

Planned next

FIRST, not reached on 6, 9 or 13 Oct: one trace table on paper for a loop that keeps asking until a stop value is typed (REPEAT...UNTIL with input) - three headings only, first row typed before the photo, photo time agreed. Before it, 5 min cold by the clock, one per message: one sentence on what while True does (right cold 13 Oct for the first time; needs a second day); the 2-mark why-hex, no cue (13 Oct: 1/2, so-what without the fewer-digits fact); three lines of pseudo-code read with no table on screen (USERINPUT, OUTPUT, arrow: taught 13 Oct, same session only). Code Lab 'Translate the pseudo-code' is DONE (run 1, 13 Oct): do not re-set. Still not run: binary-to-decimal with 'show the working' not said; binary addition by hand with the overflow sentence. Nothing handwritten since 9 Oct: next handwritten program due by 23 Oct. Check every ingredient of a task in the tracker before setting it.

Unfinished unfinished · closed

Not run: REPEAT...UNTIL trace table on paper from three headings only, first row hers (owed since 6 Oct); binary-to-decimal with working unasked; binary addition by hand with the overflow sentence. Code Lab 'Translate the pseudo-code' is now done (run 1, 13 Oct).

Unfinished: Not run: REPEAT...UNTIL trace table on paper from three headings only, first row hers (owed since 6 Oct); binary-to-decimal with working unasked; binary addition by hand with the overflow sentence. Code Lab 'Translate the pseudo-code' is now done (run 1, 13 Oct). (A07, D02, D05) — closed 2026-10-15 by session 108: completed in session 108

What this session changed

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