Welcome to the twenty-fourth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today’s challenge will expand your understanding of Human-Computer Interaction and its benefits!
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #24 – Exploring different examples of HCI”Micro Challenge #25 – Analysing how HCI contributes to solutions
1 June 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the twenty-fifth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today’s challenge will expand your understanding of Human-Computer Interaction and its benefits!
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #25 – Analysing how HCI contributes to solutions”Micro Challenge #23 – Investigating the role of HCI in accident prevention
27 May 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the twenty-third of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today’s challenge will develop your understanding of Human-Computer Interaction and its benefits!
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #23 – Investigating the role of HCI in accident prevention”Micro Challenge #21 – Using lists to create images
22 May 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the twenty-first of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today’s challenge will help you create pixel art using lists!
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #21 – Using lists to create images”Micro Challenge #22 – Getting ready for guest challenges!
24 May 2020 - 1 minute read
Over the next two weeks, we are running a series of guest challenges, put together by our friend at Newcastle University Open Lab, Megan Venn-Wycherly.
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #22 – Getting ready for guest challenges!”Micro Challenge #20 – Coding images with Turtle
20 May 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the Twentieth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today’s challenge will help you create turtle-y awesome images!
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #20 – Coding images with Turtle”Micro Challenge #19 – Drawing with pixels
18 May 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the nineteenth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today’s challenge will draw out the artist in you (pun intended)
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #19 – Drawing with pixels”Micro Challenge #18 – Sorting socks into pairs
15 May 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the Eighteenth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today we’re taking an everyday task and creating a programme to optimise the solution.
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #18 – Sorting socks into pairs”Micro Challenge #17 – Sorting the data
13 May 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the Seventeenth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today we’re sorting data in to an order which is most relevant to our needs.
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #17 – Sorting the data”LMI: Digital & Tech Careers
12 May 2020 - 1 minute read
We want Careers advisors to have access to good Labour Market Information about the digital & tech sector, so we put together an LMI fact sheet with a focus on the North East. This blog post cites the sources for the factsheet.
Continue reading “LMI: Digital & Tech Careers”Micro Challenge #16 – Finding systematic solutions (to help you win at Battleship)
11 May 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the Sixteenth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today we’re exploring ‘best possible solutions’ using Battleship!
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #16 – Finding systematic solutions (to help you win at Battleship)”Win a micro:bit computer!
7 May 2020 - 1 minute read
Join our #MicroBadge giveaway!
Continue reading “Win a micro:bit computer!”Micro Challenge #15 – Creating (& breaking) a code
8 May 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the Fifteenth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today’s challenge is inspired by VE day!
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #15 – Creating (& breaking) a code”Micro Challenge #14 – Identifying the optimum search
6 May 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the Fourteenth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today we’re looking at searching and sorting datasets!
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #14 – Identifying the optimum search”Micro Challenge #13 – Optimising a dataset search
4 May 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the Thirteenth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today we’re searching and sorting data! (It’s more exciting than it might sound – we promise.)
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #13 – Optimising a dataset search”Micro Challenge #12 – Teaching a computer to ‘think’
1 May 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the Twelfth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Try your own hand at teaching machines in today’s challenge!
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #12 – Teaching a computer to ‘think’”Micro Challenge #11 – Thinking like a computer
29 April 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the eleventh of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today’s challenge is to instruct a machine how to draw a house, a tree or a person.
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #11 – Thinking like a computer”Micro Challenge #10 – Refreshing your programming vocabulary
27 April 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the tenth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today we’re refreshing our understanding of some key programming terms – and using them to create a programme.
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #10 – Refreshing your programming vocabulary”Micro Challenge #9 – Designing a prototype
24 April 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the ninth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today we design a prototype for our solutions to challenge #7 or challenge #8!
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #9 – Designing a prototype”Micro Challenge #8 – Solving a problem using the Internet of Things
22 April 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the eighth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
What’s a Micro Challenge?
These challenges are short activities to help you develop, revise or refresh your coding skills, posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Today we look at the Internet of Things to find solutions to Micro Challenge #8!
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #8 – Solving a problem using the Internet of Things”Micro Challenge #7 – Using decomposition to solve a problem
20 April 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the seventh of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
In today’s challenge, we break a problem down into smaller parts to identify which aspect of the problem we should tackle to get a preferred solution.
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #7 – Using decomposition to solve a problem”Micro Challenge #6 – Creating a choose your own adventure game!
17 April 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the sixth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
In challenge number six, we create an adventure game where the user chooses their actions which develops the story.
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #6 – Creating a choose your own adventure game!”Micro Challenge #5 – Navigating a maze or labyrinth
15 April 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the fifth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
In challenge number five, we move around a maze to find the exits.
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #5 – Navigating a maze or labyrinth”Micro Challenge #4 – Creating a Random Action Generator
14 April 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the fourth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
In this challenge we generate random combinations of actions!
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #4 – Creating a Random Action Generator”Micro Challenge #3 – Programming an activity planner
9 April 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the third of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
In our third challenge, you will use conditional statements to create multiple outputs – and make a weekend activity planner!
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #3 – Programming an activity planner”Micro Challenge #2 – Sequencing a (secret) message
8 April 2020 - 1 minute read
Welcome to the second of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
In our second challenge, you will build on your sequencing skills to create messages and pass on information!
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #2 – Sequencing a (secret) message”Micro Challenge #1 – Sequencing
6 April 2020 - 1 minute read
Micro Challenges are short activities to help you develop, revise or refresh your coding skills. Here’s our first challenge about sequences! #MicroChallenges2020
Continue reading “Micro Challenge #1 – Sequencing”#MicroChallenges2020
6 April 2020 - 1 minute read
📌 What’s the deal with the Micro Challenges?
Continue reading “#MicroChallenges2020”Happy birthday to us!
13 March 2020 - 1 minute read
On 13th March 2019, Altitude Foundation was entered on the Register of Charities.
Continue reading “Happy birthday to us!”Launch of the Collaborative Project
9 February 2020 - 1 minute read
Altitude Foundation students will take on a real-world problem, providing a technical solution using the BBC micro:bit.
Continue reading “Launch of the Collaborative Project”Launch of Mentoring Provision
31 January 2020 - 1 minute read
Altitude Foundation students will be supported by Newcastle University student volunteers.
Continue reading “Launch of Mentoring Provision”2019 in Review
31 December 2019 - 1 minute read
Take a brief look at 2019 in numbers for Altitude Foundation.
Continue reading “2019 in Review”James Porter: My tech career so far
25 October 2019 - 1 minute read
James recently spoke at Altitude’s launch event. Here he reflects on how he first became interested in technology and how that led him into the tech industry.
Continue reading “James Porter: My tech career so far”