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Python GCSE Core · Space adventure
Stronger Python.
A bigger universe.
Start on Mars and take your Python across eleven space destinations. Repair systems, investigate signals and build image tools as you work towards the final voyage project.
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- Intermediate
- 11 adventures
- 22 teaching videos
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From the page to your next mission.
Python GCSE Core is the published companion to this course. Explore the same loops, grids and image-processing ideas through worked examples, independent practice and explained answers.
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A strong core · Room to explore
Skills for this adventure. And the next.
For learners who are comfortable with variables, decisions, loops and functions and want to apply them to larger problems.
Core skills
2D lists
Build independent rows, change individual cells and calculate across rows and columns.
Image processing
Adjust brightness, convert RGB to greyscale and combine images without changing the originals.
Explore further
More topics you’ll meet along the way.
- Loop control
- Linear search
- List slicing
- Row & column totals
- RGB & greyscale
- Image blending
Eleven destinations · One space adventure
New destination. New coding challenge.
Follow the teaching, try the worked examples and solve each mission in Python. Your journey builds from reliable loops and searches to grids, image processing and a complete image pipeline.
- Chapter 015 tasks
Mars
Make loops finish safely
See what you’ll learn
- Repair the countdown
- Stop or skip a reading
- Repair the batch reader
- Check your understanding
- Review and depart
- Chapter 025 tasks
Saturn Station
Search and count
See what you’ll learn
- Locate the manifest record
- Count matching supply codes
- Locate the upload entry
- Route every matching container
- Clear the station manifest
- Chapter 035 tasks
Titan
Summarise a collection
See what you’ll learn
- Check the coldest reading
- Select the irrigation window
- Summarise the selected window
- Find both climate limits
- Verify the climate range
- Chapter 044 tasks
Enceladus Workshop
Spot a consecutive sequence
See what you’ll learn
- Check adjacent sensor pairs
- Build a sequence helper
- Prepare complete calibration windows
- Verify the robot calibration run
- Chapter 054 tasks
Enceladus Survey
Build and edit a 2D list
See what you’ll learn
- Read the selected sample
- Create independent sample trays
- Mark one sample for inspection
- Build the inspection mask
- Chapter 064 tasks
Cargo Transport
Repeat work inside work
See what you’ll learn
- Inspect every cargo slot
- Label every cargo combination
- Build the cargo number pattern
- Close the cargo pattern manifest
- Chapter 073 tasks
Ceres Depot
Find information in a grid
See what you’ll learn
- Locate the depot cartridge
- Count the depot markers
- Verify the depot search report
- Chapter 086 tasks
Ceres Cavern
Calculate along rows and columns
See what you’ll learn
- Restore the row monitor
- Inspect a fixed load column
- Restore the product helper
- Balance the cavern loads
- Check each service island
- Clear the recovery manifest
- Chapter 094 tasks
Meridian
Change an image with Python
See what you’ll learn
- Calibrate the signal brightness
- Reveal the inspection image
- Calibrate RGB conversion
- Prepare the probe recovery display
- Chapter 104 tasks
Kepler Shipyard
Combine images into a project
See what you’ll learn
- Calibrate one blended pixel
- Keep an untouched image source
- Check the diagnostic dimensions
- Commission the image blender
- Chapter 115 tasks
Aster
Combine images into a project
See what you’ll learn
- Plan the image bars
- Prepare a row of intensities
- Apply the even-column mask
- Check both image operations
- Finish the voyage image pipeline
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Help when you need it
Revisit the teaching and worked examples, compare your results and ask the tutor about a difficult loop, grid or image operation. Build confidence on one mission before continuing to the next destination.
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