An Athletics club is planning to create an app to record the lap time of different runners during a 400 x 4 relay race. Their app will capture and store the names of the runners involved in the relay race…
A group of students have setup a young enterprise at the start of the year and are now evaluating how successful their business was. One approach to evaluate the profitability of a business is to calculate both the profit (or…
The following diagram is a quick recap of the main storage units used to estimate the size of a file or the storage capacity of a storing device. Take the Quiz! (open full screen)
In this blog post we are going to investigate how to animate a sprite when creating a video game using Python and the Pygame library. We will aim to create a frame-based animation using a rnage of graphics for our…
In this blog post we will investigate how we implement a timer to add in any of our Python game/projects. To do so we will use the time library in Python. So, to import the time library we will add…
This post is part of series of blog posts investigating different impacts of UK legislation relevant to Computer Science with a particular focus on: Data Protection Legislation Intellectual Property Protection (incl. Copyright and Trade Marks legislation) Computer Misuse Act (1990)
In this Python programming challenge, we are going to revisit the classic game called Snake. In this game, the player controls a snake using the arrow keys of the keyboard. The snake can go in all four directions (up, down,…
This post is part of series of blog posts investigating different impacts of UK legislation relevant to Computer Science with a particular focus on: Data Protection Legislation Intellectual Property Protection (incl. Copyright and Trade Marks legislation) Computer Misuse Act (1990)
This post is part of series of blog posts investigating different impacts of UK legislation relevant to Computer Science with a particular focus on: Data Protection Legislation Intellectual Property Protection (incl. Copyright and Trade Marks legislation) Computer Misuse Act (1990)