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Now that I know how to use images in Python I’ve tackled the “Where is the space station?” lesson of Code Club projects as a) I will be teaching the lesson at some point and its always good to practise the lesson before teaching it and b) I want to…

I’ve been puzzling how to use images in a Python script since yesterdays “Scissor, Paper, Stone” game. I don’t like “Googling” for an answer straight away when I’m working on personal projects and instead bounced through a few ideas before I clicked that turtle could be used to display an…

This week at Code Club I taught Python Lesson 2 (Scissors, Paper, Stone) . When I got home I showed my son (who is a massive Pokemon fan) how the lesson can be expanded to make a slightly more complicated version that included names and the option to keep playing with…

I’m having a play in Python today and looking at the Caesar Cipher. The Caesar Cipher (Caesar Shift, Caesar’s Code) is a simple, easy to implement substitution cipher. The cipher is named after Julius Caesar. The cipher works by taking the letters of the message and then shifts the letter…

Version 3 of my Amazon.co.uk price checker utilises the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) module so that JSON files can be used by Python. I’ve stored the ASIN (Amazon IDs) of the Amazon products that I want to check the price of in a JSON file (called amazlist.json) and Python now…

Building on my price checker (see part 1) I’ve now added in an option asking how much spends (a.k.a pocket money) is available and allowing for the end user to enter multiple ASINs before the program checks the prices. Next step; storing the ASINs in/reading the ASINs from a file…

One of my daily non-work related tasks is checking the prices of products from Amazon.co.uk that family members of myself are after at a cheap price. This is generally accomplished by either loading up the Amazon.co.uk individual product pages or adding all the items to an Amazon wishlist and loading…