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The Explorer’s Challenge: Naming New Species with Code

Administrator — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:36:35 +0000

After months of adventure on the mysterious island of Xylogora, young explorer Mateo has finally returned home. His backpack is stuffed with notes, sketches, and a collection of breathtaking photos of creatures never seen before. From the feathered glimmerfox to…

The Egg Farmer’s Puzzle

Administrator — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:44:35 +0000

An egg farmer is picking up eggs every morning to sell on the local market. Every day, they are picking around 100 to 150 eggs and put these eggs into egg cartons of 12 eggs. So for instance, if on…

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For Loops Challenges

Administrator — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:57:55 +0000

For this set of challenges, we are going to teach our AI:Bot some basic maths skills such as how to count in 5 from 0 to 500 or how to count down from 100 to 0. We are also going…

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Endurance Shipwreck Search Expedition

Administrator — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 20:48:22 +0000

The story of the Endurance shipwreck is one of the most remarkable survival tales in the history of exploration, highlighting the endurance and courage of Ernest Shackleton and his crew during their expedition in the early 20th century. In 1914,…

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The Coffee Shop – Price Calculator

Administrator — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:50:38 +0000

Your local coffee shop would like to set up a touchscreen tablet on the counter for the baristas to quickly calculate the cost of the cups of coffee ordered by the customers. Here are the options available when ordering a…

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Ice Cream Price Calculator

Administrator — Thu, 02 May 2024 20:28:16 +0000

Your local ice cream shop would like to set up a touchscreen tablet on the counter for their customers to customise their ice cream order and automatically calculate the cost of their ice cream. Here are the options available when…

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Return On Investment Calculator

Administrator — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:14:41 +0000

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…

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Hogwarts Sorting Hat Algorithm

Administrator — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:01:20 +0000

In this challenge, we will implement an algorithm to help the sorting hat at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry decide which house you would more likely belong to. When a new student join Hogwarts school, they are assigned to…

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Let’s Build a Castle

Administrator — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 13:47:35 +0000

In this challenge we are going to build different medieval castles by customising some Python code. Our first castle is already made for us and looks as follows: You can see, in the trinket window below, the Python code used…

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Python Turtle Race

Administrator — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:17:29 +0000

In this challenge we will create a Python script to complete a Turtle race with four turtles racing across the screen. We have started the code for you to set up the pitch of grass. You will complete this project…

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