Algorithms
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Trailblazers · Skybound Arcade
Think a little deeper.
Go a little further.
Take your Python through twelve worlds in Skybound Arcade. Learn a topic, solve its checkpoint and try a fresh practice task as you work through the Trailblazers challenges.
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- Advanced challenges
- 12 worlds
- 42 lessons + practices
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A strong core · Room to explore
Skills for this adventure. And the next.
For learners ready for the Trailblazers challenges, with a teaching lesson and a fresh practice task for each topic.
Core skills
Testing ideas
Predict an outcome, check a boundary case and use a fresh practice task to test your understanding.
Independent coding
Combine smaller functions and data structures into solutions you can explain and improve.
Explore further
More topics you’ll meet along the way.
- Sequence patterns
- Nested loops
- Function contracts
- Maze routes
- Hashing
- Recursive trees
Twelve worlds · Forty-two lessons with practice
Follow the map. Grow your problem-solving skills.
Move from sequences and nested loops to dictionaries, maze routes and recursive trees. The worlds below follow the course map, with a separate practice task for every lesson.
- World 012 lessons + practice
Meadow Mayhem
Read and select sequences
See what you’ll learn
- Choose positions and slice boundaries
- Choose a step and reverse safely
- World 023 lessons + practice
Sky Gardens
Transform and distribute sequences
See what you’ll learn
- Loop through a slice
- Pig Latin: transform one word
- Card Dealer: every fourth card
- World 033 lessons + practice
Jungle Rumble
Compare neighbours and track groups
See what you’ll learn
- Compare neighbouring items
- Detect a run of five consecutive values
- Dead Heat: preserve the group leader
- World 042 lessons + practice
Clockwork Foundry
Carry state and evaluate a ranking
See what you’ll learn
- Tile Top Temptation: propagate a required height
- H-index: match rank to evidence
- World 054 lessons + practice
Frostline Relay
Nested loops and systematic search
See what you’ll learn
- Trace a loop inside a loop
- Visit a grid by values or coordinates
- Build triangular patterns
- Happy Ultrarunners: test every improvement
- World 063 lessons + practice
Crystal Observatory
Function contracts and row summaries
See what you’ll learn
- Give a function one clear job
- Score Threshold Count: agree the helper contract
- Summarise each row
- World 074 lessons + practice
Ironrail Heist
Apply helpers across grids
See what you’ll learn
- Sum columns with a helper
- Multiply a row and collect its result
- Count a target across a grid
- Grid Sum: count the intersection once
- World 085 lessons + practice
Neon Archive
Dictionaries, collisions and frequencies
See what you’ll learn
- Keep a key and its value together
- Hashing, character codes and collisions
- Find a duplicate student ID
- Count letters and resolve a tie explicitly
- Find numbers that occur once
- World 095 lessons + practice
Sunstone Labyrinth
Maze coordinates and safe movement
See what you’ll learn
- Read maze coordinates
- Propose, check and commit a move
- Test maze movement independently
- Find every wall coordinate
- Validate a route and stop at failure
- World 103 lessons + practice
Canyon Clash
Validate and construct number grids
See what you’ll learn
- Magic Squares: test eight totals
- Number Spiral: fill one ring
- Number Spiral: assemble and test the grid
- World 114 lessons + practice
Canopy Kingdom
Recursion: carry information down
See what you’ll learn
- Represent a binary tree and stop recursion
- Carry a level down the tree
- Group tree values by level
- Track depth without leaking old state
- World 124 lessons + practice
Moonwake Siege
Recursion: return results upwards
See what you’ll learn
- Return subtree heights upwards
- Return totals for all nodes or just leaves
- Maximal Sum Path: finish at a real leaf
- Read a tree input and print the best route
Keep learning at your pace
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