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How many sweets in the jar?

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“Guess how many sweets are in the jar” is a fundraising game. A large see-through jar is filled with a carefully counted number of sweets. People then try to guess how many sweets are in the jar. Each contestant has…

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Pascal Triangle

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In mathematics, one of the most interesting number patterns is Pascal’s Triangle. It is named after Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662), a famous French Mathematician and Philosopher. To build a Pascal Triangle we start with a “1” at the top.…

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Defragmentation Algorithm

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File Allocation Table (FAT System) A file allocation table (FAT) is a table that an operating system maintains on a hard disk that provides a map of the clusters (the basic units of logical storage on a hard disk) that…

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Cinema Booking Challenge

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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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Top 10 Challenge

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In this challenge, you will create a computer program to ask the end-user to try to guess the top 10 largest countries per area. To do so you will use a list in Python, containing the top 10 countries as…

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Planets Top Trumps

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For this challenge we will create a variant of the game of Top Trumps using 9 cards, one for each of planet of our Solar System. We will store all the cards and data about the planets in a list…

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Astronomy Challenge

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What is a constellation? In astronomy a constellation is a grouping of stars on the celestial sphere perceived as a figure or design. There are 88 recognized constellations and each of these have been named after characters from classical Greek…

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Fireworks Display

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Coding is an Art Let’s first whatch this video clip which shows how a computer program can be used to create a large scale, live and interactive fireworks display: Fireworks Code Inspired by this application of computer science, we have…

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Quote of the Day

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Learning Objectives By completing this challenge you will learn how data can be stored using lists. You will store a series of quotes in a list and append new quotes to your list. You will also find out how to…

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Rainbow Challenge

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In this challenge we are going to use our coding skills to create some nice colour patterns. We will first look at the code given to create a rainbow effect to understand how it works. We will then adapt this…

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