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As 2022 draws to a close, it’s time to take a reflective look back at the year and summarise what’s…

What is Ada Lovelace Day? Ada Lovelace Day is a day to celebrate the achievements of women in STEM. It…

The start of the academic year … I hope you are filled with anticipation for what lies ahead, what will…

Listen to this article It’s another site update from us, telling you all about what we’ve been up to with…

Listen to this article Parsons puzzles, or Parsons problems, are designed to test students ability to think logically when it…

Welcome to another website update. To manage workload and to really pin down what needs to be done across the…

A quick update today telling you about a few updates and errors that we have fixed. Our biggest news is…

A quick update on the website this morning. Following our large scale update of the website theme, we’ve been hard…

Today we’ve made a really big update to the site including a full theme change and work to change over…

A quick update on the latest developments of the website over the past couple of weeks. Where time has allowed,…

A quick update to make you aware of some new content on the site. Over the past few days some…

It’s been a while, but welcome to our latest website update where I get to tell you what I’ve been…

4 years ago today, I decided that there was not enough online resources for computer science aimed at GCSE, A-Level…

The 80286 became known as the ‘286’ and was a 16 bit processor with memory management built in. The 80286…

Steve Jobs presents the Apple iPad January 27th 2010. It went on to be another massive success for Apple but…

Apple launched the Macintosh (also known as the Macintosh 128K) on January 22, 1984. The Macintosh was the first commercially…

Over the past few days, we’ve been working on a few style updates to the site among other things. We’ve…

We’ve been hard at work over the past few days and have brought about some more website updates. First up,…

It’s that time again to tell you about what has been updated on the website. A lot our quizzes now…

We’re wishing everyone a great year in 2022 – I think we deserve it! This post is a quick update…

A quick update on a fix applied to the site. One of our quiz plugins decided to turn some of…

As 2021 draws to a close, it’s time to cast a glance back at 2021 in the context of this…

You’ve just finished explaining the task you want your students to do, you went into every detail and modelled what…

Add some festive fun to your lessons with our free computer science Christmas tasks. Tis the season, so why not…

On 21/11/1969 the first permanent link was made between UCLA and Stanford Research Institute in the United States on what…

Microsoft’s first foray into the console market sparked confusion upon it’s initial release. Microsoft were well known for their operating…

Microsoft introduced their first foray into graphical user interface operating systems with Microsoft Windows 1.0 in New York on 10th…

What’s been going on in our social media? Find out below! Social Summary 1/11/21 – Curated tweets by CScienced

The Morris Worm was the first worm to spread over the internet and cause large scale infection. It was released…

Add some festive fun to your lessons with our free computer science bonfire tasks. As students look forward to bonfire…

A website update as it has been a while! I’ve taken a little break from the site as you may…

Introducing our latest website feature – Vigenere Cipher tasks. Following on from our very popular Caesar Cipher wheel, the Vigenere…

As part of our free Halloween themed Computer Science resources (KS3-4) https://computerscienced.co.uk/site/halloween-tasks/ another Halloween themed coding challenge for you: Can…

Teachers – inject some fun into your lessons this Halloween with some of our Computer Science Halloween tasks. Halloween is…

Steve Jobs is best known as the co-founder and CEO of the American multinational technology company Apple. He was instrumental…

A quick website update from me, just because I haven’t done so in a while. Though I haven’t done a…

Nintendo is one of the most well-known game developers in the world. They are responsible for franchises like Super Mario…

A quick website update today that is also acting as a bit of a test for me to see if…

While many schools and students are lucky enough to have access to the latest and greatest big name software available,…

A quick update today with some more features and some more style! In the last update I talked about the…

A new website update for you all today, that has actually been going on over the past few days. We’ve…

Coding is still a major part of Computer Science and the language that most schools choose to learn from KS3…

An unexpected update based on a retweet I saw this morning: This set of retrieval practice templates can be adapted…

Back from some time off and pleased to announce that the second part of the logic gate puzzles has just…

Logic gate puzzles are go! In this update I can confirm the latest part of the site that I have…

In todays update we’ve been looking at refining the look of the site, implementing some new features and making decisions…

Today I have been mostly working on the Keyword scramble games. As mentioned in the last update all of the…

These updates were actually carried out yesterday but since nothing has been done today I’ll include them in today’s update!…

Todays updates centred around a few different things – continuing to implement some speed improvements, addressing the style of the…

Todays update has been focussing on improving access speed on the site. This has involved adding caching to the site…

For this update I’ve been concentrating on the long term viability of the site. Basically making sure that the site…

Todays update has involved a lot of “behind the scenes” work and a bit of tidying up to make the…

Noticed that the most visited thing on the website is actually the online caesar wheel (thanks Google!). I’ve added some…

As ever it’s been too long! CAGS / TAGS has literally been my life for roughly 4 months. Quick stylistic…

Apologies – I’ve just found and fixed an error in the denary to 8 bit binary teacher worksheet that unfortunately…

There have been a few minor updates over the past few days. All very minor but useful such as: Clicking…

Unfortunately I have had to disable “Tooltips” (which highlighted key word phrases on the site) as it was interfering with…

First I have to clarify that nothing has really been done to this website since the last update apart from…

Two features have been added to the site recently: A Towers of Hanoi puzzle – great for KS3 to KS5…

There have been a number of recent additions to the site outlined below: Design changes to the site theme and…

2 further resources have been finalised on the site today: CS Keyword Scramble – a resource that scrambles keywords from…

Today is the first time I have touched the site in a very long time due to various commitments. I…

Small improvement today – something that tidies up the UI and prevents bemused students. The way that the program loaded…

As of today Python Blocks has gained a really useful additional feature: Direct output from blocks to pseudocode! To access…

Binary Battle Equipment – some dice and paper or white boards. Student knowledge required – Denary to Binary conversion How…

Since it’s initial inception Blocks to Python has undergone a rapid development cycle with changes to it on a fairly…

While attending ExaBytes18 I was introduced to a very useful way to teach Functional Programming to KS5 students using the…

Welcome to the site.  It is currently under construction but will hopefully contain lots of useful content soon. The idea…