So it’s five days away and I suspect some students are panicking about the skeleton code for this year – which was a model simulating Ants and Nests. Here’sa quick overview video I made for students with (I hope) some useful tips.
I made this video last year after marking 300+ Paper 1 Computer Science scripts for AQA. While it was fresh in my mind I made a list of lots of potential tips for future examinees. You may find it helpful!
Other useful links:
This is the goto wiki with ideas for what may be asked about this year’s skeleton code program (Target Clear)
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A-level_Computing/AQA/Paper_1/Skeleton_program/2025
In summary:
1. Check versions! Of Python, Flask and Jinja
2. Read this really useful tutorial https://dev.to/lordghostx/how-to-host-flask-applications-on-namecheap-cpanel-299b (Thanks LordGhostX)
Okay so I’ve been meaning to figure this out for a while. Flask is a good library for letting students use the power of Python as a back end to the graphical niceties of HTML,CSS and Javascript. But we’ve been stuck to using it on Replit or Glitch which, being public sites, aren’t ideal for students who are doing their final year project and suffer the other issues of remotely hosted IDEs. So I was always interested in finding another way. Read more…
There’s only so far you can get with Python before you realise the command line is pretty, well, boring. And you hanker for something graphical, with colours and buttons and different fonts. What you need my friend is a Graphical User Interface(GUI)
#use the variables below to print out "Hello Laura"
name = "Laura"
greeting = "Hello"
print out "Hello Laura"
name = "Laura"
greeting = "Hello"
print(greeting +" "+name)
test_function("print")
success_msg("Good stuff!")
https://github.com/datacamp/datacamp-light-wordpress
#print the numbers 0 to 19
print the numbers 0 to 19
for i in range(10):
print(i)
for i in range(20):
print(i)
success_msg("Good stuff!")