Review: Python for Kids
Python for Kids is a new No Starch publication written by Jason R. Briggs. Aimed at children from the ages of 10 up who would like to learn Python, the book starts with the very basics even down to in
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New Python MOOC Course
A new style of course, MOOC, is about to launch and Python is first up.
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GCSE WJEC CS Course Accredited for 2012
WJEC have gained accreditation for their new GCSE course and it is available from September 2012.
Electronics
Challenges of Getting to Mars
A great video outlining the difficulty in landing the NASA Curiosity Rover on Mars. It is mentioned in the video that it took over 500,000 lines of code to program the landing procedure.
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Why do YouTube views freeze at 301?
Numberphile pays a visit to YouTube and learns the secret behind one of the website’s famous idiosyncrasies – why view counts on new videos often freeze at 301.
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Guardian Seminar Round-Up
An excellent round-up of the recent Guardian seminar for Computer Science can be found here.
Courses
Scratch and Python Course
Coding at School is pleased to announce that we are running our first CPD course on the 9th and 11th July. It will cover both Scratch and Python and is aimed at teachers with little programming knowle
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Review: Code Avengers
Code Avengers is a website which aims to help teach Javascript (and soon HTML) to students. Designed by Michael Walmsley, Code Avengers is aimed at GCSE level students at was initially designed to cov
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Adobe Generation Course
Adobe have started a free online course for young, creative students. Aimed at students between the ages of 14-19 who would like to be games designers, animators, video artists, or photographers.
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Google: The Story of Send
Google has launched a new site the details the journey an email takes once you click the ‘send’ button.
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Exclusive: Computing GCSE News
Today I attended a computing qualifications meetup at Anglia Ruskin University that was attended by the three main exam boards; OCR, AQA and Edexcel. Please excuse any typos or mistakes – I have type
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New Computing GCSEs Event
For anybody interested in delivering GCSE Computing, there is an event coming up at Anglia Ruskin University with representatives from AQA, EDExcel and OCR talking about their GCSE in Computing/Comput
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Code Race – Revise your HTML
Code Race is a website that pits you against other coders in a race to solve HTML and CSS problems.
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Facebook Launches ‘Groups for Schools’
Facebook has launched a new service called ‘Groups for Schools’. This allows teachers and students to collaborate together and share un-copyrighted files between each other. It plans to make it easier
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Inside Foxconn: How the iPad is made
An interesting video was uploaded to Youtube yesterday showing how the iPad in production in China. Certainly worth showing to your classes.
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How is computing taught in the rest of the world?
The Guardian recently published an article about how computing is taught in other areas of the world. The good news is that the recent changes here in the UK has been noticed around the world with ma
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AQA GCSE Computer Science now accredited
As expected, the new AQA GCSE Computer Science course has now been accredited. It is supported by Microsoft and designed around mobile, web and gaming technologies.
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Creating Bone Chilling Video Game Monster Sounds
A really good video looking at the people who are employed to create the sound effects for video games has been posted over at Revision3 (a great internet television site for tech news and info).