Python Parsons Problems (Normal/Medium Difficulty)

Parsons Problems are solutions to a coding problem but the lines are jumpled up.
Good for differentiation as it can help reduce cogitive load (Bean, 2022).
Parsons Problems target specific topics to expose students to good programming practices (Parsons and Haden, 2006).
Good for visual and kinaesthetic learners.
Great for starter or extension activities for the students to go on, while you can set up for any other activity.

This resource is a custom set of PowerPoint slides that provides three different ways to attempt them:

1. Draging and dropping lines on the PowerPoint itself
2. Download the code to solve on your own IDE, also available in Replit.com (an online IDE) to fork as well.
3. An online drag and drop website which shuffles all the lines that can check if it is correct

The feature of the ‘Normal’ difficulty is that the at around two lines are shuffled, and some questions have missing variables or keywords that are highlighted with underscores that need filling in.

The PowerPoint has at least one problem for the topics needed for GCSE:

1. Outputs
2. Variables and Outputs
3. Variables, Outputs, and Inputs
4. Maths Operators (input integers)
5. Random numbers
6. Strings and casting
7. Booleans
8. If
9. If/Else
10. If/Elif/Else
11. Nested Ifs
12. For loops
13. While loops
14. Nested loops
15. Arrays/Lists
16. 2D Lists
17. File handling
18. Subprograms (functions/procedures)

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