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!")
I came across this course on the Raspberry Pi Certified Educators Course this October. It piqued my interest as it uses a text based adventure game to introduce OOP concepts to learners.
I had previously done this with an idea of a Space Invaders game using Visual Basic.NET. This was a fun introduction to concepts and it is easy to create classes and objects in VB. However my current cohort of learners are mostly unfamiliar with VB and have a better grasp of Python.
The course is written by Laura Sach, who I finally met at PiCademy after years of following her on Twitter. And I thouroughly recommend it as an accessible way of understanding Object Oriented Principles in Python
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/object-oriented-principles/
