Pluke

A-Level Computing

Hi, I'd be more than happy to help out, I also despise the Heathcote book, and have personally found it useless in some cases. I'll add bits and pieces to it, since computing is one the most enjoyable and easiest subjects for me. --Krackpipe 11:46, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for the offer of help with the CIE section of the A-level Computing book. I'll be adding to it over the course of the year as I teach the course, but the more people there are working on it the better, so do feel free to dip in as you feel like it! Hoping that the book will become a great resource for any exam board. --Pastbury (discuss) 14:04, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Print version

I completely don't understand where's the problem. The proper use of print version is: you go to A-level Computing/Print version and click "Press Refresh this page before you print to have the latest changes.". You will then see true print version and I can assure you won't see unneccessary templates there.

Anyway, because print version notice seemed to introduce some confusion, I changed it to be more clear. --Derbeth ^talk 09:04, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Page A-level_Computing/Print_version is no true print version, you should not print it in this shape. Besides print version notice, there are also "edit" links, left navigation bar and lots of elements that should not appear on print. This page is not ment to look like it would afer being printed, because it simply cannot. You have to click the bolded "Printable version" link or "Refresh" link in order to get page which really is ready to be printed.

To sum up, you don't have to get rid of all templates like the print version notice, from A-level_Computing/Print_version, because this is not page that will be printed. It's just an overview of how print version looks like. --Derbeth ^talk 09:24, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikistudy?

What is wikistudy, I ask for you becouse you have edit it. Is it like wikijunior but for older. Does it have own Wikistudy books--Tigru 05:38, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

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A-Level computing

Thanks. I'm currently studying the AQA course so I'll be able to update as I glide (hopefully!) through it. TheGenius1 17:50, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Hi I´m Oceancetaceen, want to ask you something about Wikistudy. I come from Germany Duisburg Rheinhausen and want to ask you: Are you the main author and did you need a Germanbook for it, you could be look on the german wikibook pages, there I work mainly and write books for school, please reanswere on my dicussion page.

I sorry that I cant so many english, do you know germans in english Wikibooks?--Oceancetaceen (talk) 15:29, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

defining tables w/ integrity rule

Hi Pluke. I've been looking at your book - our curricula are not the same as the UK's, but similar - and I came across the DDL page. The primary key definition seems to be a bit different from what I've learnt at school. I'm wondering if this

CREATE TABLE crooks
(
ID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
NAME CHAR(16),
GENDER CHAR(6),
DOB DATE,
TOWN CHAR(20),
NUMSCARS INTEGER
)

What I learnt at school was:

CREATE TABLE crooks
(
ID INTEGER NOT NULL UNIQUE,
NAME CHAR(16),
GENDER CHAR(6),
DOB DATE,
TOWN CHAR(20),
NUMSCARS INTEGER,
PRIMARY KEY (ID)
);

I've tested yours and it works well, but I wonder if your code tells the RDBMS that the field is supposed to be not null and unique, or if that's already 'implied' in this code. Of course, RDBMSes are supposed to alert the data entry operator if the key field is null or non-unique, but I think it's better to define it explicitly. Thanks Kayau (talk · contribs) 12:31, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Can you explain your edit revertion?

Hi ,

Why did you revert my revertion on a page?
I reverted that page because the content was quite mixed-up , attribution content was changed without reason(names) and there did not seem to be anything proper with that set of edits.
Of course I may be wrong , so I'm interested to hear your response. --Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 18:45, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

ː My mistake, reverting

Adding BBC BASIC answers

A-level Computing/AQA/Problem Solving, Programming, Data Representation and Practical Exercise/Skeleton code/2011 Exam/Section B

I added some alternative answer's using BBC BASIC (which is still highly regarded in the UK). It's also something that's provided on the Raspberry Pi (as Brandy).

If it assists there is a manual for the Windows version (which for most practical purposes is the same as BASIC V on Arm/RISC OS based systems (the exception being related to the host platform) here http://www.cix.co.uk/~rrussell/bbcwin/manual/index.html.

Many many years ago there was a British publication called 30 Hour Basic, which may also prove useful.

Sfan00 IMG (discuss • contribs) 11:26, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

A-level Computing/AQA/Paper 1/Skeleton program/2017

I see you reverted my reversion on that page. This is, well, unexpected. I saw those edits as vandalism, in fact tbh I still see them as vandalism; that IP was vandalizing at the time, there and elsewhere, and I gave them a one-week block for it. I understand that page to be a skeleton, deliberately, meant to not have specific questions filled in. Perhaps I'm missing something. How do you see it? --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:50, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi pi zero. The edits elsewhere might be vandalism, but the edits on this page are contributing to filling in the skeleton outline. Hope that makes sense. Pluke (discuss • contribs) 15:52, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

That's... thought-provoking. If someone at that IP was being deliberately helpful, it may suggest my block was too long. I'll have to reassess that action. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 16:27, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Unexplained revert

Hi Pluke, could you explain why you reverted Kittycataclysm's edits without giving a reason why? It would be more helpful in the future if you used edit summaries to explain your reversion. --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 10:57, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

@SHB2000 sure, the edit removed an answer to a question. The previous structure of these pages had the question as the title to make it easier to students to navigate, rather than Question 1, Question 2, Question 3 etc. Sorry I should have made my reasoning clearer Pluke (discuss • contribs) 11:50, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification! I apologize for the original revert. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 13:06, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

no need to apologise @Kittycataclysm, I should have been better with my rationale! Pluke (discuss • contribs) 13:10, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Understandable, and no need to apologise. We all forget to include edit summaries at times. SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 23:11, 26 January 2023 (UTC)