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Is the BBC Microbit project fatally damaged?
In September 2015 I was very excited to be starting a job teaching KS3 Computing and ICT at the time when the BBC Microbit was being given, free of charge, to every Year 7 child in the country – or … Continue reading
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Python & Scratch Bubble sorts for KS3
Here’s a bubble sort I knocked up to help teach bubble sorts in Year 9. Before we get to this point we will have looked at Hungarian folk-dancing bubble sorts, done a bubble sort ourselves in class with human numbers … Continue reading
Python CoolPlay for OS X
Update – a new version of PyPlay is now on GitHub. It has pretty colours and gives you the out time and everything. CoolPlay is a very useful Windows program that plays audio files. So what? Lots of programs do … Continue reading
Scratch vs Python
Which is better for teaching coding in KS3: Scratch or Python? There’s only one way to find out! But seriously… I love Scratch. I think it’s a great tool for getting children interested in computing, and I do think there’s … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi traffic light project, part 2
In the first part of this project, we made some traffic lights out of LEDs attached to a Raspberry Pi computer, and we wrote code to make them light in sequence using the Python programming language. This was made really … Continue reading