Christmas Coding Fun

A collection of books all about the Winter Holidays

Winter Holidays

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!

Santa is having a bad time at the moment, so we need to help him out.&#160; 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Santa">Secret Santa</a>)

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

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

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

Outside Front&#160; (Upside down)

Outside back&#160; (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

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): &#160;&#160;turtle.fd(100) &#160;&#160;turtle.right(90) ts = turtle.getscreen() ts.getcanvas().postscript(file="outputfile.eps")

You have 100 relatives and everyone expects a personal greetings card. Thankfully this year digital is ok. Can you use <a href="http://pythonchallenges.weebly.com/lists.html">Lists</a> to create a personalised set of greetings?

Super Hard Challenge: Create a CSV file you put in a spreadsheet to mailmerge your greetings

Using Turtle create a Christmas tree to amaze your family with your coding abilities! Help is available at: <a href="http://pythonchallenges.weebly.com/turtle.html">Python Challenges Turtle</a>

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

Can you create Combo of Greetings generator and a card, Secret Santa or quiz

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.

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])

import turtle for i in range (4): &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;turtle.forward(50) &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;turtle.right(90)

Tutorials &#38; more info at <a href="http://pythonchallenges.weebly.com/turtle.html">Python Challenges</a>

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