The Assignment accounts for 33% of your overall National 5 Computing Science Grade - the other 66% is from the Exam.
The Assignment give you the opportunity to demonstrate the practical skills that you have learn over the course of the year. You will complete the assignment during class time, and will have 6 hours to complete two practical tasks - a Software Task (25 Marks) and either a Website or Database Task (15 Marks).
I've recorded a video that gives you an outline of what the assignment involves ...
The assignment tasks is created by the SQA and changes every year. To help prepare for the assignment you could complete some of the old assignments, which are available on the SQA Past Paper Website.
Below are Walk-through videos of different Assignment Tasks.
Walkers
Parallel Arrays, Find Max, Linear Search
West Fife Walkers (Animal Sightings)
Flight Bookings
Gnome Sweet Gnome
The Card Foundation
Springfield Zoo
West Fife Walkers
JavaScript, CSS (Position & Layout)