My First Podcast: Bitesize Revision for GCSE Computer Science

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I’ve created a podcast for GCSE Computer Science students to revise topics in small “bite size” chunks. I’m slowly releasing new episodes, but I’ve committed to doing an episode a week, as I realised people were actually listening to them. You can either listen using the embed below or go direct to the page here,

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/bitesize-computer-science

where you can leave an audio message, which I might include in a future podcast! Read more…

Python exercises in the browser from Data Camp

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#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!")


Put variables into a print function

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!")


Change the 10 to 20

FutureLearn – Object Oriented Programming in Python

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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/