A school timetable is displayed as a 2D table consisting of 5 rows (for each day of the week) and 5 columns (number of lessons in a day). Such a table can be stored in a computer program using a…
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Four-in-a-row challenge!
In this blog post you will use Python Code to complete this simulation of the game of connect 4. (Rules of the game) You will first need to reverse-engineer the code provided. The code so far is used to: Display…
Space Invaders – 3D Pixel Art
In this blog post we will use Glowscript to create a 3D animation of a space invader. 2D Graphics used in retro arcade games consist of pixels. A 2D graphic can be described as a grid of pixels of different…
Cinema Booking Challenge
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…
Battleship Challenge
For this challenge we are not going to recreate a full battleship game. Instead we are going to focus on randomly placing the ships on the grid using an algorithm. The code given below uses Python Turtle to draw the…
Flowchart Studio
Python Syntax