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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Geany 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…
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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…
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If you use tools such as GNU Privacy Guard to sign and or encrypt e-mail then you have the facility in Thunderbird, with the Enigmail extension to attach your public key (.asc file) to your e-mails. This is found as an option within the e-mail compose window. Enigmail Menu — > attach My Public…
Continue readingCode Club 2/2/2019
Next code club is on Saturday 2nd February 2019 at Paignton Library. More Scratch and Python and hopefully a new helper will be dropping in to see what we are doing. More basic info on our Code Club page. Scratch Website Trinket Website
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More updates to the ToriOS manual. Starting to add information on the various applications that come with the Operating System and also update and maintain other parts of the manual. Help with this and documentation for free software generally is always welcome. https://github.com/zleap/ToriosManualv21 forks.1 stars.0 open issues.Recent commits: README.md updated from https://stackedit.io/, Paul Sutton add…
Continue readingCode Club 19/1/2019
Next code club is on Saturday 19th Jan 2019 at Paignton Library.
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First session of 2019. So we are now up to 8 attendees with 3 three new attendees today, so a great start to 2019. Using scratch 3 went without any major problems. The children also like some of the new features such as Text to Speech. So positive start to the new year. My…
Continue readingCode Club 15/12/2018
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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Third Code Club session is Tomorrow 6/10/2018. 10 – 12 at Paignton Library and Information Centre. Update 6/10/2018 Session went well, flyers handed out so hopefully a few more for next time ( 20/10/2018 ). Attendees are learning well and enjoying the sessions. Lots of resources to teach specific skills which can be…
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