Welcome to my website. I am currently running Code Club at Paignton Library and Information Centre.
Continue readingLords – Immigration Procedures Debate
On 14/2/2019 the House of Lords had a Immigration Procedures Debate. This debate was started by Lord Roberts of Llandudno I caught this part way through and carried on watching as it was interesting to listen to. Background to the debate: “To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they will take to improve immigration…
Continue readingVeterans awareness training
On 14/2/2019, I attended a course presented by SEAP ( https://seap.org.uk/ ) aimed at raising awareness of Veterans’, their needs and how their life in the military can impact their life out side of the military. For example finding jobs can be harder veterans may not be used to interviews, within the military finance such…
Continue readingCode Club 16/2/2019
Next code club is on Saturday 16th February 2019 at Paignton Library. More Scratch, Python and coding More basic info on our Code Club page. Scratch Website Trinket Website Also looking forward to more discussions on Twine.
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Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. [1] 1. https://twinery.org/ Download and unzip the archive file for your OS. Once extracted. /home/user/twine/twine_2.2.1 (where user is your username) Files can be stored in home/user/Documents/Twine Under stories. Twine can be loaded up from the cli terminal window with ./Twine (This IS case…
Continue readingCPD Update – Feb 2019
As I am committed to improving my skills, I am undertaking a course on veterans awareness tomorrow (14/2). Looking ahead I am now confirmed on two other courses later in the year; WRAP, which is prevent awareness and Online Safety. In terms of Open Learn study this is going well, completed the 6 hour…
Continue readingGeany IDE issues
Geany, is one of the Text Editors and IDE utilities available for GNU / Linux. It is quite nice and I have posted previously on how to configure the build settings so you can either run for Python 2 or 3. Recently however it seems to be not playing ball, as the screenshot below shows…
Continue readingStretch to Buster
I decided to upgrade a spare netbook from Debian 9 (Stretch) to Debian 10 (Buster). This went really well, just a case of editing /etc/apt/source.list then running apt update && apt upgrade apt dist-upgrade I didn’t see any messages during this process. Not the process is not fully automated here, it will stop and ask…
Continue readingSuperbowl LIII
SUPERBOWL LIII SUNDAY FEB 3 2019 To conclude the NFL 2018 season. New England Patriots beat the Los Angeles Rams 13-3. Game highlights can be found here.
Continue readingNethack 1
NETHACK Nethack website From the Nethack wiki “NetHack is a roguelike computer game, and the most famous and popular of its kind. The latest version is 3.6.1, released on April 28th, 2018.” Download page As Nethack-vulture is no longer available in the Debian / Ubuntu / Mint respositories I have gone back and decided to…
Continue readingSafer Internet Day 2019
Safer Internet Day 2019 will take place on Tuesday 5th February with the theme ‘Together for a better internet’. Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre the celebration sees hundreds of schools and organisations join together to raise awareness of online safety issues and run events and activities right across the UK. Find out…
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