Programming

Programming Club meets in X Block every Friday during lunchtime

Pyton

A good starting programming language. Python has lots of functionality.

The link above takes you to the year 10 program which is a good starting point for learning python.

C# Programming

Training Resources

Below are a selection of resources to practice the types of question you might find in a programming completion. They are roughly listed in order of increasing difficulty.

Beginner

Code WOF

Intermediate to Advanced

New Zealand Olympiad in Informatics

Programming for fun

On online course supported by UC that includes all the past problems

Useful Skills

Dictionaries

https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_dictionaries.asp

Breadth-first search

https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/BFS.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-VTfcmrLEQ

Knapsack problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem

Teachers in Charge

Mr Rodkiss

e-mail: rds@burnside.school.nz

Mr Dunford

e-mail: dfs@burnside.school.nz