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101 Computing Dashboard

Administrator — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:18:36 +0000

Are you looking for some inspiration for your next coding challenge? Do you need a selection of programmning projects for your coding club? Or maybe you would like to revise a computer science topic for your GCSE or A Level…

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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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Name the Country: Python Challenge

Administrator — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 11:18:49 +0000

In this challenge, you will use your Python skills to create a quiz where the player has to guess the name of a country when they can only see the first letter of that country. When a player gives an…

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Periodic Table of Elements – JSON Challenge

Administrator — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:43:38 +0000

The periodic table is a chart that organises all known chemical elements based on their atomic number, electron configurations, and recurring chemical properties. It serves as a fundamental tool in chemistry, physics, and other sciences, helping scientists understand the relationships…

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Computer Software Card Game

Administrator — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:40:47 +0000

There are a wide range of software that can be used on a computer system and these can be grouped in three main categories: Operating System: The Operating System (OS) is the foundational software that manages a computer’s hardware and…

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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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