PHP and MySQL for A2 Computing projects

In the past, many of my students have made successful project using a combination of PHP and MySQL. This year, all three of my students are using it in some capacity and one has combined it with jQuery. I have been meaning to write a full workbook for a long time and I have finally

10 Mini Programming Projects

Inspired by @mwclarkson asking for ideas yesterday on Twitter, I thought I’d put together a compilation of 10 mini programming projects I have used in the classroom. Each of them could be used with the language of your choice, although the resources I’ve linked to may contain information specific to the language I used and

PHP Love Calculator task

I’ve been meaning to write this one up for ages! This is an idea that grew to encompass more and more things that I realised fit in to it from the OCR Computing AS F452 syllabus. The premise I expect you’ve seen the TV adverts promising that if you text your name and your crush’s

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,

Coding, “the crappy way”

I was talking to my friend Tristan the other day, via the MUD which he has created and programmed himself. If you don’t know what a MUD (Multi User Dungeon) is, it’s a sort of a text based adventure world where you can interact with other people, and move between various rooms and locations, and