Code club is back this Saturday 15/12/2018. We will be carrying on with existing projects and helping new members get started. Lots of activities to have a go at. UPDATE This will be our LAST code club before Christmas, and probably the last of 2018. In which case Code Club will commence on the…
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Scratch 3 project 1
SCRATCH 3 PROJECT 1 Scratch 3 is out in January. I am starting to create some simple projects. This seems quite effective. As the rainbow has different colours anyway, changing the effect by 25 applies that to each of the various colours. It also looks like you can zoom in to the code. This…
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Another great code club to day, good to welcome some new faces and be able to help newcomers to coding help with the basics. The Scratch cards are a really good starting point for the younger children. Before moving up to the actual code club materials. The next Code Club will be on 15/12/2018….
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Code club is back this Saturday 1/12/2018. I have created a CodeClubPaignton Studio, so that some of the scratch activities that require custom resources that are not included with scratch can be accessed easily and worked on. Most of the activities can be completed using the graphics, sounds and backgrounds provided with Scratch. UPDATE…
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Code club is back this Saturday 17/11/2018. I have created a CodeClubPaignton Studio, so that some of the scratch activities that require custom resources that are not included with scratch can be accessed easily and worked on. Most of the activities can be completed using the graphics, sounds and backgrounds provided with Scratch. RESOURCES…
Continue readingCode Club 3/11/2018 – Write up
WRITE UP This week we were back to the regular 5 attendees plus one more. Numbers are going up, slowly. The new member started off with the ‘boat race’ activity, and after a little work, and re-learning how to use the backpack feature, we got the right graphics, background and sprites in to the account…
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A reminder that the next Code club is this Saturday at Paignton Library.
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Yesterdays code club went well. The attendees are still working on their own projects, which is fine. Everyone helps each other out, so very collaborative. However there are enough resources for any new starters who would like to use the code club materials. We have a few spaces left so are up to roughly…
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This year the Hour of Code will be the biggest and best ever. There is so much I can’t wait to share, and it starts with a special video! Creativity is our theme for the Hour of Code this year. Hour of Code during CS Education Week, December 3 – 9th. Students worldwide…
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Fourth Code club session is this Saturday 20/10/2018. Paignton Library.
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