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Codelearn Special Weeks: Quantum Computing
This week we will celebrate the second theme week of the school year, which will be dedicated to quantum computing. Quantum computers work differently from the regular computers we use in our day-to-day life: they don’t work with bits that can only have a value of 0 or 1, that is, they don’t use binary programming, but instead use qubits or quantum bits.
5 password managers to keep your data safe
Passwords helps us to guarantee the privacy of our data on the Internet. Along with e-mail addresses and usernames, passwords constitute a way to access our data and private elements on the Internet and give us the opportunity to “hide” these contents from other users. But what happens when someone manages to figure out one of our passwords? The moment someone who isn’t us gets hold of one of our passwords, we lose our privacy and, with it, the sense of protection we’ve enjoyed until now. That is why, taking advantage of a date like Safer Internet Day, today we also want to talk about password managers.
Codelearn Drawing Competition – 1st Edition
As you already know, throughout the school year we always organize activities such as Halloween and Christmas contests, which reward the creativity of our students and allow them to combine art and technology. This year we have decided to host the first Codelearn Drawing Contest, a unique opportunity to show us your artistic skills off the platform.
ChatGPT: artificial intelligence poses new challenges to education systems
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot which has been trained to hold conversations with us. Trained on large amounts of text, it has gone viral lately because it is an extraordinary tool that is able to perform any language-related action: it can answer specific questions for us much faster that if we Googled it ourselves and proving a certain sense of context that allows it to maintain a conversation on the topic, but it can also do other things like tell us a joke, create a story or a song, write lines of code, translate texts or write articles respecting the lenght we ask. In fact, since its appearance, many more projects have been created that use the same type of technology and that serve to perform specific tasks, from creating content to Excel formulas.
What is a Raspberry Pi and what is it used for?
A Raspberry Pi is a small computer that is similar in size to an Arduino board and is also often used by makers to build electronics projects. However, even if they may seem visually similar, these tools are not the same: a Raspberry Pi is a much more powerful tool than Arduino and can be used to make more complex projects, since it is a microcomputer and like all computers it requires an operating system to function.