Check our version of the Taboo game focusing on A level computer science terminology. The objective of the game is for a player to have their partners guess the word on the player’s card without using the word itself or…
Yuri lives in Oxford, UK and commutes by train to his work place in London every working day of the week (5 days a week). One evening, Yuri spot the Moon through the train window and asked himself the following…
Did you know that Alpha-Centauri is the second nearest star to planet Earth, the first one being the Sun. It is 4.2 light-years away from us! When astronomers measure the distance of stars (from planet Earth) they do not use…
In this post, we will investigate how we can use the 2D rotation matrix to calculate the coordinates of a point when applying a 2D rotation of a set angle, Θ. Here is the 2D rotation matrix: Which results in…
In this blog post we will revisit two of the key python functions: print() and input() in order to improve the user experience of our Python programs. As you know, the print() function in Python is used to output a…
In this blog post we will use a Python script to work out how many lego bricks would be needed to build planet Earth! To solve our problem we will use the following data: We will work out the number…
In this blog post we are going to help Elian save his favourite cake recipe as a web page. Elian has already typed all the instructions for his lemon drizzle cake recipe but needs your help to format how the…
In this blog post we are going to help Asya complete her homework research task about rainbows. Asya has collated a range of interesting facts about rainbows and has decided to submit her work as an HTML page. She has…
Standard form (a.k.a. standard index form), is a system of writing numbers which is particularly useful when using either very large or very small numbers. It is based on using powers of 10 to express how big or small a…
Check the following pieces of code. The syntax of the code is correct and the programs do run. However, while testing these programs, you will notice that they do not always produce the expected output! This is because each program…