[Yr11 Information Technology] Programming task

[Howard, David]

219MB in an hour?

David Howard 

 St Michael's Grammar School

25 Chapel Street, St Kilda VIC 3182 

Phone (03) 8530 3200 
Fax (03) 9510 9392 
Email dhoward at stmichaels.vic.edu.au 

Website www.stmichaels.vic.edu.au

 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2008 11:37 AM
To: Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Yr11 Information Technology] Programming task

An interesting and educational programming challenge for your kids would

be to write a program to convert from (K)bits per second to megabytes 
per hour. e.g. you're downloading a torrent at 500 Kbps, how much will 
be downloaded in an hour?

The algorithm is fun, and the unit conversions are handy to know.

Cheers
Mark

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