Computer Science Department

ICT & Computer Science Department, The Pingle Academy, Swadlincote, Derbyshire Part of the de Ferrers Trust. “Work hard, be kind, choose wisely.”

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Targeting Sunday, September 4 for Falcon 9’s launch of 51 Starlink satellites and Spaceflight’s Sherpa-LTC to orbit from Florida → https://t.co/eohyowGHyu

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Years 9 Drone days event, promoting STEM and having fun!! @PingleAcademy @DRONEdays

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Mason has been awarded his departmental certificate of excellence for programming ability, enthusiasm & self directed learning.

#engage #suceed @PingleAcademy

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Very proud of Mason for his ingenuity and programming skills within the lesson and at home. He has many projects including this weather app and programming speakers at home to play music round the house!!! #achieve @PingleAcademy

https://t.co/EK020vGfye

https://t.co/NZ9zE2wfbS

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Dylan has received a departmental award for his AMAZING programming skills and drive within computing after sending Mr MP code that could quite easily be completed by an A Level student! #aspire #achieve #proud @PingleAcademy

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Great afternoon of training with @stuartswann and @raisingrobots Can’t wait to use this in school! @PingleAcademy

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Great Lego spike training session so far, quick break and the. Back to it!!

@RoyalAirForce @BAESystemsInc @RoyalNavy

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Both Lego kits are now built ready for Mr MPs Lego coding tomorrow, more than a little excited!

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Half of the Lego spike kit built ready for Mr MPs training on Wednesday

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Year 7 & 8
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Animation
https://t.co/a3UAohPJBE

Preproduction
https://t.co/xD5l30JpOQ

This is the last week of work. I hope you have enjoyed doing these topics and I hope you all have a great safe summer.
See you all in September.

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Year 9 & 10
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Work on reviewing the effectiveness of pre-production documents, this has been emailed out by Mrs Foster and uploaded by your teachers to Google Classroom.

https://t.co/Wrz32hYz4Y

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Year 7 & 8
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You have a choice of work to complete. the options have been emailed out by Mrs Foster and will also be on Milk & google classroom.

https://t.co/0aIgUO4Fyu

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Stonewall Riots day 4
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Jon Hall

Jon is the executive director of Linux International, a nonprofit that sought to promote the use of Linux-based operating systems. In 2012, Hall came out as gay in an article published in Linux Magazine.

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Stonewall Riots day 4
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Lynn Conway

Lynn is a pioneer of microelectronics chip design. While at IBM she transitioned from male to female, and was subsequently fired by the company in 1968 after revealing her intention to live as a woman.

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Stone Wall Riots day 3
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Edith Windsor

IBM engineer and American LGBT rights advocate, she was a key figure in legalization of gay marriage in the USA. She was also a computer programmer and an engineer, working at IBM in the 1950s and ’60s.

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https://t.co/mTBidkZy7e
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VIRTUAL TOUR NOW LIVE!

Another example of technology being used to make our world smaller and more accessible!!

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Stonewall Riots day 2

Peter Landin
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He worked on the development of programming languages that could be universally understood by different machines.

He was married but was openly bisexual. In the early 1970s he became involved with the Gay Liberation Front.

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YEAR 10 Computer Science
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The programming project introduction lesson is about to start, if you are not able to make it then I will try and put a recording of it up onto the google classroom.

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YEAR 9 & 10

Work has been emailed out by Mrs Foster and uploaded to milk and google classroom.

Please find below revision materials for content learnt and link to do the quiz to check your knowledge.

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https://t.co/FPUzuPnkEn

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Stonewall Riots day 1

Alan Turing
Turing played a crucial role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements.
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