Excellent resource that is very popular with GCSE students in Computer Science. Students are arranged into guild teams, then given 6 challenges (1 per lesson) They earn points for their team, and can choose from a simple, intermediate, or expert level of coding for the given task. Loops, random, subroutines, turtle, adding scores, and finally a TKInter project are all included. The students have so much fun, but be aware, they get very competitive! It is useful to mix high level with low level coders, as the high level will prompt low level on how to achieve the higher marks. This will last around 6 lessons.

This unit of work will easily fill a half term with teaching of: inputs and outputs Variables IF statements Delays Sub routines Iteration Lists All in the form of a memory game ‘you enter a cave, do you turn left or right?’ This is best suited to students who have a little knowledge of inputs outputs and IF, and can be used to expand upon that knowledge. I cannot upload Py files, but if you email me annemariebradshaw@hotmail.com I will send teacher files to you (there are screen shots of the coding in the unit though)