Christmas Coding Fun

Outmanoeuvre Scrooge

Scrooge is a terrible employer! You are paid by the line of code and you need cash for Christmas gifts, so how are you going to get as much as possible? You've been asked to write one measly line saying, "Bah Humbug!". How can you do it in as many lines as possible? Every line HAS to do something, no comments. Even Scrooge knows that much about coding.

Hint: You might want to get Python to write Python!

Mr Abela kindly provided you with a very helpful program to countdown to the most important day of the year... His birthday! However you might want to change the date to something else such as new year.

import datetime
MrABirthday = datetime.date(2021, 8, 14) - datetime.date.today()
MrABirthday = str(MrABirthday).split(",")
print(MrABirthday[0])

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Screentime Allocation

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Your household has managed to score a PS5, but only 1 and so now the children always argue as to how much time they get. Make a timer that givens an equal amount of time for each sibling.

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Christmas Quiz

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Everyone loves a Christmas quiz! Can you make a quiz that gives out seasonal questions or a topic of your choice?

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Super Hard Challenge: Create a quiz that has a question editor which saves the questions.

Using Turtle in Repl.it

Quick Start Guide To Turtle

import turtle
for i in range (4):
turtle.forward(50)
turtle.right(90)

Tutorials & more info at Python Challenges

Christmas Tree

Using Turtle create a Christmas tree to amaze your family with your coding abilities! Help is available at: Python Challenges Turtle

Quicker Alternative:
Want to do a snowman instead?

Super Hard Challenge: Create Christmas Tree generator that uses seeds to generate the perfect tree for you

Make a Greetings Card you can print

Outside Front

(Upside down)

Outside back

(Upside down)

There is an easy way to print cards by folding them in 4. Use turtle to create your very own seasons greetings card. Your front and back will be upside down, so you'll need to be clever when you draw those pictures

Inside Left

Inside Right

On a computer, this code will save your drawing as an eps file which you can use in programs. (Opens in Preview on Mac)

import turtle

for i in range(4):
turtle.fd(100)
turtle.right(90)

ts = turtle.getscreen()

ts.getcanvas().postscript(file="outputfile.eps")

Secret Santa

Santa is having a bad time at the moment, so we need to help him out.
Can you create a secret Santa present system for him. The idea is that everyone buys 1 present, you get told who you are buying for but NOT who bought for you and you need to make sure everyone who enters their name is included. (See more details about Secret Santa)

Super Hard Challenge: Create a CSV file to track all your Secret Santas