New lessons, new games, new tools for teachers, and news of the robot.
The competitions have been rebuilt from the ground up. Every game is sorted into easy, medium and hard, and into single robot, free-for-all and team games, so a class can pick one that fits what it has just learned. None of them are about pushing another robot off the mat: the best program wins.
See the gamesTwo teams, a line down the middle and balls on both sides. Robots pick up a ball with the gripper and kick it at the other team without crossing the line. Get hit and you are out; catch a ball and the kicker is out instead.
Play DodgeballPrint race now has noisy sensors and one question at a time, so a robot that averages its readings well beats one that answers fast and guesses. The simulator loads games and tasks faster, and replays play smoothly with a Play and Stop button.
Try Print raceThe course now runs all the way through A level Computer Science, for OCR H446, AQA 7517 and Eduqas A500QS. Every lesson has a lesson plan, and the specification points each lesson teaches are on the coverage map.
See the coverage mapTeachers can now make their own tasks and competitions in the teacher app: put robots, balls and zones on the mat, then write the rules as simple IF and THEN steps. The simulator checks students' programs against them, just like the built-in tasks.
Open the teacher appAny lesson task can be embedded in a school website, a VLE page or a blog, with your own starting code. The embed builder writes the snippet for you.
Build an embedA new module on the GCSE exam itself: how the papers work, trace tables, pseudocode, programming and long-answer questions, and where marks are most often lost.
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