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Italian Takeaway Ordering System

Administrator — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 11:00:14 +0000

An Italian Takeaway is asking you to write a computer program to facilitate the ordering process and automatically calculate the total cost of an order. They have stored their menu and all prices into a text file with the following…

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Cinema Booking Challenge

Administrator — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:59:59 +0000

A cinema has created a booking system for their main theatre which consists of 48 seats, organised in 6 rows of 8 seats. To store information as to whether a seat is booked or available, the program uses a 2-dimensional…

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Break Even Point

Administrator — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 17:48:42 +0000

In Business or Economics the Break Even Point (BEP) is the point at which the total of fixed and variable costs of a business becomes equal to its total revenue. At this point, a business neither earns any profit nor…

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Kings & Queens of England

Administrator — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 20:39:22 +0000

Portrait of Henry VIII There have been 66 monarchs of England and Britain spread over a period of 1500 years. For this Python challenge you will use a text file listing all of these monarchs in chronological order. You will…

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Professor Snape’s Magic Potions

Administrator — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 18:16:35 +0000

In this challenge we will use file handling techniques to read through and access the content of different text files. We have saved three recipes for the following three magic potions using one text file per recipe: Invisibility Potion: A…

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Leaderboard

Administrator — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 15:30:00 +0000

Before completing this challenge you will need to make sure you have already completed a game or a quiz in Python with a scoring system. You will then add a leaderboard functionality to your existing game or quiz in order…

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Domain Name Server

Administrator — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 23:17:38 +0000

Domain Name Servers (DNS) are the Internet’s equivalent of a phone book. They maintain a directory of domain names and translate them to numerical IP addresses. These IP addresses are used to identify and locate the web-servers on the Internet…

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Google Translate

Administrator — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 20:37:50 +0000

Have you ever used Google Translate to translate some text or a full webpage? For this challenge we are going to try to write a Python script to translate from English to French. However we are only going to translate…

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Le Tour de France

Administrator — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:42:41 +0000

Learning Objectives By completing this challenge we are learning how to open and extract data from a text file, reading the file line by line. We will then use our program to make some calculations such as calculating the total…

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London 2012

Administrator — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 23:25:16 +0000

Learning Objectives In this challenge we are going to investigate methods that can be used to: Read and extract data from a text file, Sort this data in ascending or descending order, Display this sorted data on screen. Context We…

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