Weekly coding challenges

Take part in weekly coding challenges, who can deliver the best work? The top 5 from each week are placed onto the website below.

Scratch

DateIdeaTop 5
September 15th 2025You can make the best single pane platformer. You character needs to be able to jump, land on platforms and avoid enemies / obstacles, it should also have a way of measuring how many lives it has. Bonus, it can collect power-ups and if there are stairs, it can climb them.

Python

DateIdeaTop 5
September 15th 2025Write a python programme to read from a file. The file should contain a list of movies, and information about the movies (AI can be your friend here) and replicate some of the functionality of Netflix. You should be able to search for movies by name, genre, run time and any other relevant metric.
More Advanced – Make it use a SQLite database instead of a flat file.