Tag: Selection

Which Season?

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Did you know?: Though we all agree that a calendar year is divided into four seasons, people sometimes disagree on the dates when these seasons start or finish. Many bodies, for example meteorologists, adopt a convention for the purpose of…

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Resistor in Series and Parallel

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In this blog post we will create a Python program that will help us calculate the total resistance when two resistors are connected either in series or in parallel. This program will be based on the following formulae: Program Flowchart…

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Hogwarts Sorting Hat Challenge

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In the Harry Potter series of novels written by British author J. K. Rowling, The Sorting Hat is a magical hat at Hogwarts that determines which of the four school Houses each new student belongs most to. These four Houses…

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Voting Age Checker – Flowchart

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For this challenge you are going to code a script to ask a user how old they are and inform them as to whether they are old enough to vote or not. If they are not old enough to vote,…

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Archery Scoring Algorithm

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In this challenge we will write a Python program to randomly shoot an arrow on a target. We will then use Pythagoras’ Theorem to calculate the distance between the arrow impact and the centre of the target. This distance will…

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The Zoo Keeper’s Puzzles

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Learning Objectives: This set of puzzles will improve your Python skills when using If Statements (Selection) You will focus on: Using comparison operators: ==, !=, < , >, = Using Boolean Operators: AND, OR, NOT if statements use comparison operators…

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Coding Puzzles

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Complete the following coding puzzles by drag and dropping the lines of codes in the correct order to recreate basic computer programs. Click on the picture below to access the coding puzzles:

Sequencing, Selection & Iteration

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When you write lines of code, there are three ways you can control the order these lines will be executed by the computer: Sequencing: This means that the computer will run your code in order, one line at a time…

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Guess the country

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For this challenge we are going to create a game where the user plays against the computer. The aim of this game is to guess the name of a country. The computer will give the player clues to help them…

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Haunted House

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You are going to write a Python game where the user walks within the different rooms of a haunted house. In each room, something will happen. You will decide what happens when the user enters a room. You can use…

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