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…
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Codecademy update 27/12/2018
I have Just completed an updated Bash (command line) codecademy course. This now includes exercises on bash scripting. Very useful. It is good to undertake new courses, but just check that previosly completed courses have not been updated, or that 100 percent may, as in my case, go down to 80 percent.
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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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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…
Continue readingDebian 9.5 install
I am now running Debian Linux 9.5. This is the current stable release. So far this seems really stable. I have installed the most recent build of Weechat IRC Client from the backports. So feel free to chat to me (zleap) on Freenode. I’ll still hang out in the Linuxmint support channel on…
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I spent a few hours this afternoon migrating my netbook from Lubuntu to Debian 9.5 (Stretch), this went really well. There were no issues with hardware support as I had already tested this before migration. So having installed the base OS, installed extra software and copied back all my backed up files. I am…
Continue readingCode Club – Week 2
Code Club week 2 went well, I am going to run a session this coming Saturday 6/10/2018 in order to take code club back to the first and third Saturday of the month. As a result of this it is synchronized with the flyers that the Library service have produced. This week the attendees…
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The Paignton Code club commences on Saturday 29th September 2018 at Paignton Library and Information Centre. We will be using Scratch 2.0 which is freely available but having an account may be helpful so you can store what you have created for the next club or work on at home. I have printed Module…
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First code club session on the 15th September went well. I am now looking forward to the next session. I have printed out all the activities for Scratch : Module 1, so can add these to the resources for code club. I should probably get a Trinket account ( https://trinket.io/ ) as this is used…
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