Slides
Every deck below runs in the browser (built with reveal.js) and, where available, can also be downloaded as a PDF or PowerPoint file. Lessons with worksheets or code have a materials.zip with the slides, printable PDFs and Python files together.
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| Intro to Python A crash-course intro to Python for a class of 16-year-olds with zero programming experience, taught live with Spyder. | View (recommended) | Download PDF | Download PPTX | materials.zip |
| What Is a Function? Building the idea of a function from scratch for Year 10 students, using making tea as the running example. | View (recommended) | Download PDF | Download PPTX | — |
| Cryptography: Run-Length Encoding A run-length-encoding lesson for ~16 year olds: what encoding means, why we compress, and decoding pictures by hand. | View (recommended) | Download PDF | Download PPTX | materials.zip |
| Image Analysis: Hidden Messages A follow-on to Intro to Python: from 'what's a library?' to treating a picture as a grid of numbers, leading into a hidden-message decoding challenge. | View (recommended) | Download PDF | Download PPTX | materials.zip |
| Programming Turtles: The Maze An unplugged follow-up to Intro to Python: pairs program a printed turtle maze with seven physical command cards. | View (recommended) | Download PDF | Download PPTX | materials.zip |
| Guessing Pi with Random Darts A 15-minute lesson for ~15 year olds: estimating pi by throwing random darts at a square, in plain Python, with animated diagrams. | View (recommended) | Download PDF | Download PPTX | — |
| Language Modelling Workshop A two-session LLM workshop: from GPT to ChatGPT (prompting, RLHF, prompt injection, and a live CTF), then fine-tuning a language model. | View (recommended) | Download PDF | Download PPTX | — |