I am currently teaching Javascript to Year 9s as we are in remote learning mode and it has worked well as it is a web based language which students can easily do in a browser without needing any special software. I have the first edition of the following book and it’s great.
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…
#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 stumbled across this website that allows you to visualise line by line execution ina Python program. This may be useful for students who are unclear about how a function (or blocks of code) run within a program:
http://pythontutor.com/visualize.html
This was recommended by Al Sweigart in his Automate The Boring Stuff with Python (https://automatetheboringstuff.com/)
Splitting names in Excel:
=LEFT(B1,FIND(” “,B1,1)-1)
=RIGHT(B1,LEN(B1)-FIND(” “,B1,1))