[Yr7-10it] Re: [it-teachers] python programming competition

[Peter Ruwoldt]

This is really worth doing.  The students I had do it last year learnt lots
and really enjoyed the challenge.
Peter

2009/6/24 Bill Kerr <billkerr at gmail.com>

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Teachers can enter too
>
> http://challenge.ncss.edu.au/
> --
> Bill Kerr
> http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/
>
>
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