Year 12's Learn App Programming

Scratch Project

Year 12 High School Diploma students are learning how to program Apps for Android mobile phones and web browsers. This is part of the new "Computer Programming" course offered by the ICT department.

Recently there is renewed interest among educators in many countries for schools to return to teaching the principles of computer science so that we can enable a new generation of young people to create applications and content for the web.

Here is an example of what they have been doing. More examples will follow as they are completed

Click "read more" to play the game online (requires up to date version of Internet Explorer, Safari or Firefox)

Read more: Year 12's Learn App Programming

NASA timelapse photography of our planet

Taken from the International Space Station between August and October this year, this video gives us a stunning look at the planet that we live on. It is often useful to see something from a different perspective in order to gain a better understanding of it.