Learning Python
A nice video playlist on learning to program with Python. It takes it from the start, so if you’re struggling in KS4 or want to learn more before the GCSE, then it’s a good series. Let me know if you have any other good tutorials that you found useful. There is also several other links …. Read More
Who Invented the Keyboard and is the Dvorak Really Better than the QWERTY?
If you’ve done lesson 6 of the understanding computers module in year 8, you may have seen the history of the computer include the typewriter which is where the weird order of letters on your current keyboard comes from. If you’ve wondered why they’re placed in this weird order or if there’s a better way, …. Read More
App Lab
https://studio.code.org/s/applab-intro/stage/1/puzzle/1 App Lab is a Scratch like program to develop mobile phone apps. Give it a go!
Code Combat
https://codecombat.com/play/dungeon Hunt through the dungeon, collect gems, kill monsters. You can create an account if you really want to, you don’t have to.
Jahoomas Logic Box
https://logicbox.jahooma.com/ Caution: Difficulty level – Year 10-year 13 This is one that I find difficult. You really have to think carefully to work your way through the levels. The concept is a very important one, especially for GCSE students. It’s all about solving a challenge, then packaging up that solution and using it to solve …. Read More
Silent Teacher
http://silentteacher.toxicode.fr/ As much as you may want it to be the case, I’m not silent. This website is however. It will give you some code, and ask you to guess what it results in. If you don’t know, guess. Then try to figure out why it gave that result. It will always let you know …. Read More
Little Dot Adventure
http://little-dot.toxicode.fr/ From the same people that made Compute It, it’s a very similar game, but taken it to the next level. You’ll need to really plan ahead and think through the problem to find the correct solution. Think carefully, trying every combination won’t get you far.
Hacker Puzzle
https://puzzlersworld.com/hackerpuzzle/1.html This is an excellent site which gives you a whole series of challenges. A couple of students have got to the end, but it’s rare. Are you one of the few that can hack it? Each challenge requires a combination of reasoning, logical thinking, creativity, and research to get to the next page. You …. Read More
Internet across the Atlantic
This video is probably a bit long to show during the lesson on the Internet, but it’s a good video about how they got the different sides of the Atlantic connected. Goes all the way back to Morse code in 1937 and on to fibre optic internet.
Compute It
http://compute-it.toxicode.fr/ Compute It is a fun way of looking at algorithms. The right hand side of the page gives you the instructions that you must follow. Through this you’ll encounter: Sequence – instructions are followed in order. Iteration – repeat statements mean the lines inside the curly brackets will be done that many times. Selection …. Read More