BSN Computing Department

21/03/2022

Everything must change eventually...

Questions are being asked about the web giant’s waning powers, but it may just be a storm in an online teacup

09/03/2022

Russia already has its own Internet subnet - will it be turned on soon?

The global internet is under threat as the conflict in Ukraine continues.

01/03/2022

We’re extremely proud of our Senior School Voorschoten (SSV) Year 12 A-level Computing students, who recently took first place in the Hour of Code coding competition! 🤩 They came first out of 98 participating countries and nearly 35,000 students – an incredible achievement!

The Hour of Code is an international coding competition consisting of one-hour coding challenges. It takes place each year during Computer Science Education Week in December and students use Codementum, an online coding platform, to complete each of the 20 challenges.

Well done, team BSN! 👏

A special thank you to Calum Gordon, SSV’s Head of Computing, for coaching and supporting the BSN team.

📖 Read more in this blog post, written by SSV student Tina for student newspaper Published: https://britsc.nl/CodingCompetition

22/02/2022

22.2.22

Today is 22.02.2022!
Do you know why that's a special date?

22.02.2022 is a , meaning it reads exactly the same backwards.
Not only that, but today's date is also a . So if you flipped the date upside down it would still read 22.02.2022.

So you can read today's date from front to back, back to front and even upside down and you'll still get the same result. How cool is that?!

15/02/2022

Tail wagging the dog?

A London-based AI company recently revealed its new engine AlphaCode can already match many human developers

13/02/2022

Don't forget about your trusty old hard drive ...

Old drives often contain precious memories, but to keep them you have to maintain them. Here’s what the experts say about how to do it

25/01/2022

Who says the Internet is a virtual place? You can't get more physical than this...

What does its breakage tell us about the problems of getting coverage to remote areas?

10/01/2022

One third of the eternal Golden Braid: Kurt Godel.

The proof that rocked maths

06/01/2022

Wow, we won the Codementum coding competition for CSEdWeek in December! Amazing achievement by class 12B computer scientists. Kudos to you all ...

03/01/2022

Good old integer overflow strikes again ...

As digital calendars around the world changed to 01.01.2022, Microsoft customers found their Exchange servers stopped processing emails.

25/12/2021

Not so sure about some of these (C?) ... HTML is not a programming language!

Programming is a great skill for kids to learn and develop their problem-solving skills. There are many types of programming languages for kids. Here is an overview of the top programming languages for kids to start with for kids who are interested in learning to code.

22/12/2021

What a mess this is...

A vulnerability has been exposed in Minecraft, the bestselling video game of all time – and the security implications outside the world of gaming are vast