Snakes in the Grass – Learn From My Python Fails

As the January exams approach I have found myself becoming increasingly reflective about my teaching using Python. I have taught the OCR AS Level Computing course for two years now and when we first began the course Python was my immediate language of choice for its simplicity and ease of use. I did not have

Python Madlibs

Long time no blog! Things have been incredibly busy, especially as I’m also working on the #include hack day for 11-13 year old girls which will be held in June 2013! Anyhow, I thought I’d put up a little game I created as a revision task for my upper 6th who have their January modules

PHP shoutbox task

Bizarrely enough, I recently started teaching topic #1 on the OCR AS ICT F452 module. The specification clearly isn’t design to be taught from beginning to end, and in fact I’ve found I jumped all over the place trying to teach it. We started off by looking at interface design principles using HTML and CSS,