Teach Computing
Revision notes, activities, lesson plans, teaching ideas, and other resources for GCSE, A-Level, and IB Computer Science teachers and students.
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Examples of Local Cryptocurrencies
Digital Money for Local Communities covers three examples of country-wide c...
Hash function
A hash function takes arbitrary sized input data (e.g. a fil...
Cryptocurrencies vs regular currencies
What is Bitcoin and How Does it Work? is a high level overview of the Bitco...
Examples of Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin is by far the most well known cryptocurrency. The Bitcoin website w...
Practice paper 3 exam questions
One of the drawbacks of the yearly case study is that there are no past p...
Emergency Management System Explainer Video
This short video gives an overview of some EMIS features. It includes many ...
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
For some functionality, an EMIS may also be connected to a GIS (Geographic ...
Programming languages - from Scratch to machine code
The CS Field Guide has a very comprehensive guide to different types of pro...
Assembly language simulators
There are several assembly language simulators available for use online. Si...
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Book of Programming Ideas
The Book of Programming Ideas document contains 64 example programming exercises for students to try. The sections cover everything from basic input and output exercises through to subroutines, functions, and file handling. There are Python and Java versions of the document, although all exercises are written to be language-independent.
Updated: 2018-01-10
These Java Helpsheets cover various aspects of the language including if statements, data types, loops (while and for), and the Scanner class. Each sheet summarises the concept and provides several example lines of code.
The sheets can be printed out on A4 or A3 paper and make excellent wall displays to help students who are new to programming.
This resource was created by Matt Lowe and is released under the CC-BY-ND licence.
Updated: 2015-09-07
This video explains different types of data structures - 1 dimensional arrays (or just 'arrays'), 2 dimensional arrays, and records. The example code is given in Python, which makes this video perfect for many GCSE courses.
Updated: 2018-02-17
