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Smoothies Ingredients Data Set

Administrator — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:01:21 +0000

For this programming challenge, we are going to practise reading and extracting data from a JSON file. We will be using a JSON file storing information about the ingredients and recipes for 20 different smoothies. JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) JavaScript…

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Paris 2024 – JSON Challenge

Administrator — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 20:45:20 +0000

The Paris 2024 Olympics provided a great opportunity for around 10,500 athletes to compete in 329 events, each event giving an opportunity for competing athletes to win one of the three medals: Gold, Silver and Bronze. All together, 206 countries…

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Flappy Bird Animation using Pygame

Administrator — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:29:01 +0000

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…

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Snake Game Using Python

Administrator — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:58:08 +0000

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,…

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Poem Decoding Challenge

Administrator — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:06:38 +0000

To celebrate the start of the Winter, we have asked our Artificial Intelligence “AI-101” to generate a poem about the cold winter weather. The AI has generated the following poem which consists of a list of numbers! We believe the…

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The Moroccan Spices Box Set Puzzle

Administrator — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:05:37 +0000

In the heart of the medina of Marrakech, you will find one of the largest and most colourful souks in Morocco. In this souk, you will find merchants selling traditional clothing, multicoloured carpets, pottery, jewellery, antiques, lanterns, spices, etc. On…

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Standard Deviation Algorithm

Administrator — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 11:24:05 +0000

In statistics, given a set list of numbers, the standard deviation is a measure of the amount of variation or dispersion within the set. A low standard deviation indicates that the values tend to be close to the mean value…

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The Birthday Paradox

Administrator — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 09:38:39 +0000

The birthday paradox is based on a counter-intuitive fact that in any class of 23 students or more, there is a higher probability of having at least two students sharing the same bithday. Considering that there are 366 different possible…

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The Monty Hall Problem

Administrator — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 17:21:57 +0000

The Monty Hall problem is a counter-intuitive brain teaser based on probabilities. This puzzle is named after Monty Hall, the TV presenter of “Let’s Make a Deal”, an American TV show (known as “Deal or No Deal” in the UK)…

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Bouncing Algorithm in a platform game

Administrator — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:54:54 +0000

In this blog post we will investigate how to implement a bouncing algorithm used either in a platform game when the main sprite collides with a platform or in a breakout game when the ball bounce against a brick. (x,y)…

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