This is really worth doing. The students I had do it last year learnt lots and really enjoyed the challenge.<br>Peter<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/24 Bill Kerr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:billkerr@gmail.com">billkerr@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><p>The School of IT at the University of Sydney is running a
programming challenge for high school students over 5 weeks in term
3, 2009 - starting on Monday 10 August.</p>
<p>Unlike existing competitions, the NCSS Challenge is designed to
cater for both beginners and advanced students. Each week, a set of
Python teaching resources for either in-class or self-directed
learning will be distributed to participants via email and online.
A set of challenge questions testing this material will also be
distributed. Each week's challenge set will range from relatively
easy to extremely challenging allowing beginners to progress at
their own rate whilst extending gifted students. The challenges
will increase in complexity as more and more programming concepts
are covered over the 5 weeks.</p><p>Teachers can enter too<br></p><p><a href="http://challenge.ncss.edu.au/" target="_blank">http://challenge.ncss.edu.au/</a><br></p><font color="#888888">-- <br>Bill Kerr<br><a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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