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Endurance Shipwreck Search Expedition

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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

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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

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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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World Buildings Quiz!

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For this challenge you are going to create a quiz based on some of the most iconic buildings in the world. We have selected a collection of 20 buildings with their name, height in meters and location. This data is…

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Storage Devices: The Technologies Behind Your Data

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In this lesson we will investigate the three main technologies used by the different storage devices in a computer system: Optical storage devices such as CD, DVDs and Blurays Magnetic storage devices such as the Hard-Disk Drive (HDD), floppy disks…

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Smoothies Ingredients Data Set

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For this programming challenge, we are going to practise reading and extracting data from a JSON file. We will be using a JSON file storing information about the ingredients and recipes for 20 different smoothies. JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) JavaScript…

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The Coffee Shop – Price Calculator

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Your local coffee shop would like to set up a touchscreen tablet on the counter for the baristas to quickly calculate the cost of the cups of coffee ordered by the customers. Here are the options available when ordering a…

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School Room Finder

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Your school is organising an open evening event where prospective parents will be able to visit the different classrooms and departments to get to find out more about the school and meet with the teachers. Parents have been given a…

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Circular Maze Challenge

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The aim of this challenge is to use Python Turtle to trace a path to solve this circular maze. By doing so we will investigate how we can draw different arcs of different radiuses and different lengths to guide the…

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Pronic Numbers Challenge

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A pronic number is a number which is the product of two consecutive integers. For instance 42 is a pronic number because 42 = 6 x 7. One approach to work out if a number n is a pronic number…

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