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Write your own Adventure Programs for your Microcomputer: A blast from the past

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Write your own Adventure Programs for your Microcomputer: A blast from the past

While doing some training with Tasha Board quite some years ago, we were based in a Youth Club-cum-school wherein we found a hoard of Usborne books from the '80s. Amongst these was one entitled 'Write your own adventure programs for your microcomputer' - ISBN 0-86020-

Coding With Kids: A Story of Abstraction

Coding With Kids: A Story of Abstraction

This is a follow up to this blog post. I was contacted by the Head of IT/Computing at St. Michael's Prep School in Kent for some help in a code-a-thon they were running. As part of the outreach within the Institute of Coding I agreed

Changing some code up, fixing some bugs, and should we criticise when people are doing their best?

Changing some code up, fixing some bugs, and should we criticise when people are doing their best?

So Kasim, whom I believe to be an OCR GCSE CS teacher recently posted the code below on Facebook, reporting an error and seeking help. I, like others, managed to run the code fine and assume the error was due to some funky Idle caching problem or some such. But