Unfortunately, the move to a Level 3 lockdown means that we are unable to run coding classes this week (1-5 March).

Beyond that, we don’t know. We will let you know when we have further news.

It was great to get a first full week of coding under our belts.

Students got their first taste of the coding language Python. They did well and I look forward to the challenges that lie ahead.

If you’d like to practise at home, the Python program can be downloaded for free at python.org.

We explored simple in-built functions, like print(), bin() and round(), as well as user-defined functions. For example, we personalised the ‘Hello World!’ message.

We finished by looking at the code behind a a simple ‘guess the number’ game.