Installing Python Packages with Pip
In this article you will learn how to install Python packages using the pip package installer. When you install Python on your computer, it comes with the standard library which is a...
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The 21 Game with Python Turtle Graphics
Here’s something fun. The 21 Game is a two-player counting game where each player can add 1, 2, or 3, starting at zero, to the total. the total must not exceed 21...
Cleaner Python with PEP 8
Today we are going to look at two ways to make your Python code cleaner. What does that mean? Well, code is very often read by people other than the person who...
BBC micro:bit Introduction
A couple of years ago the BBC distributed nearly a million BBC Micro:bits to schools in the UK as part of the BBC’s Make it Digital initiative. It was generally considered a...
Fun with Cats – Python API Calls
One of the great things about Python as a programming language is that you can do fairly powerful things with just a few lines of code. In this article we are going...
Calculating Distance with Python
Play Treasure Island by Clicking Here I am very keen to help people connections between Maths and Computer Science. Above is a game I wrote using JavaScript. When you click on an...
Introduction to Recursion in Python
It was a dark night, the night was dark and the robbers were in a cave. One robber said to the other “tell us a tale,” and this is the tale he...
Global Variables will Break the Internet
You may have heard that global variables are dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. They may even break the internet. How scary! However, it turns out on investigation that the...
Python Coding Environments
When learning (or teaching) python for GCSE or A Level Computer Science, one of the first decisions you will need to make is which coding environment to use. This is actually no...
Times Tables Trace Table
I want to share a programming activity with you which addresses several topics in the GCSE computer Science syllabus. One of the challenges when following a syllabus with clearly delineated assessment objectives...