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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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The Programming Skills Survey

Administrator — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:45:21 +0000

You have been tasked with creating a Python program that generates a survey about programming preferences and skills. Your program will have to: Ask the user a series of questions about their programming experience. Validate the user’s input for each…

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Parameter Passing: Take the Quiz

Administrator — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:25:54 +0000

When we call a function in a programming language, we often need to pass data (or parameters) to that function for it to operate on. The way these parameters are passed — either by value or by reference — plays…

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MS-DOS Emulator

Administrator — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 16:19:50 +0000

MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an early operating system developed by Microsoft in the early 1980s. It was widely used on IBM-compatible personal computers and is known for its command-line interface, where users type commands to perform tasks rather…

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Spider Web Challenge

Administrator — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:46:51 +0000

For this challenge our aim was to use Python Turtle to draw a spider web on the screen. Our code will first will the screen in black (Colour code #000000) and create a Python Turtle called spider, with a light…

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Irrational Numbers – Python Challenge

Administrator — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:36:56 +0000

An irrational number is a real number that cannot be expressed as a ratio of integers, in other words you cannot write an irrational number as a fraction p/q where p and q are both integer values. Two of the…

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Storage Units – Bigger or Smaller Quiz

Administrator — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 11:04:48 +0000

In this challenge we are going to create a quiz using Python to test the end-user’s understanding of storage units used to describe the capacity of a storage device. Our quiz will consist of 10 “Bigger or Smaller” questions as…

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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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Storage Devices Python Challenge

Administrator — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 20:58:11 +0000

The aim of this challenge is to create an “Odd One Out” quiz on storage devices using Python. But let’s first revisit the main technologies used by storage devices in a computer system. We can categorise all the storage devices…

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Mountains Elevation Quiz

Administrator — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:05:48 +0000

For this quiz we will use a data set of 10 of the most iconic mountains in the world. (Not that these are not necessary to top 10 highest mountains in the world). Here is our data set, displayed as…

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