Further to my previous update. I am now undertaking the ‘Teaching programming in Primary Schools‘. Course with Future Learn. Training and Education page will be updated in due course. Again I will be paying for this course as the £32 will allow unlimited access and a certificate. Hopefully working will then allow me to earn…
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Updates May 2018
The past week has seen a somewhat flurry of activity around a range of different issues. Firstly, I was contacted with regard to CoderDojos starting up in Devon. This is really exciting as it takes Code Club to the next level and extends participation to 7 – 17 year olds. There should be a…
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I have decided to undertake my next future learn course ‘Teaching programming in Primary Schools‘. This covers using scratch to create simple and more complex programs. It is designed also cover the basic concepts in programming. Hopefully I can not only use what is taught to help me as a Teaching Assistant in schools…
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The project I was doing at the Department of Work and Pensions in Torquay still seems to be on hold. I am not sure what is going on exactly. What I did with them seemed to go well, intro to word press and physical computing sessions went well. Just wish I could have carried…
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SCRATCH 3.0 August 2018 will see a new release of the Scratch programming environment. Scratch 3.0 preview needs WebGL installed. I got scratch 3 working by installing chromium browser on my Linuxmint desktop.. This seems to have WebGL support built in, the default Firefox browser does not appear to have this. (I may be…
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CPD Update 2018 – Part 2 3/3/2018 Completed the Futurelearn ‘Prepare to run a code club’ course and signed up to the Teaching Physical Computing with Raspberry Pi and Python’ course. I will however upgrade and obtain a certificate for both courses.
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CPD Update 2018 – Part 1 Over the past week or so I have been working hard to update my CPD and CV. Firstly on the 16th of Feb I attended a Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness course. This was presented by the Children’s society and held at the Foyer in Torquay. I found out…
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Learning Ruby Part 9 Further to my previous post on this. I have now completed 73% of the course on Codecademy. This extends my coding streak to 39 days. Moving on to : Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas Points : 460 Total Badges : 39 Skills: 5
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DWP Project 2 This Young men project has now commenced. Following on from my previous post” I spent about an hour working with two young people. After connecting a Pi Stop to a Raspberry Pi, we set about programming scratch to turn each LED on, this allowed us to make sure each LED worked….
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PostgreSQL 9 High Availability Cookbook Over 100 recipes to design and implement a highly available server with the advanced features of PostgreSQL. Create a PostgreSQL cluster that stays online even when disaster strikes Avoid costly downtime and data loss that can ruin your business Perform data replication and monitor your data with hands-on…
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