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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gedit – text editor
Following my recent Debian 9.5 install, I was looking for a nice text editor. It seems since I last saw this gedit has had a major overhaul. Well done to the development team. Lot of what look like nice features. I have set the colour scheme to dark. Some of the menu options are…
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This is the second in a series of Weechat Tutorials. The first one is here. This time we are going to look at automating the joining of channels (see later about auto joining servers) As with last time in the text input box type /fset autojoin and press enter. The procedure is similar to before. …
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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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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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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…
Continue readingCodeClub Paignton – Update 2
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…
Continue readingEssential digital skills framework
Looks like the Digital Skills Framework has been updated : (12/9/2018) Looks pretty straightforward. Makes interesting reading and some of the statistics are interesting too. Not sure if these are based on people who have ‘bits of paper’ or from other research. I am sure that I am able to do the following :-…
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This looks like an interesting development. Announcing the Arduino Command Line Interface (CLI)
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The main topics covered in the Teaching programming in primary schools are :- Variables Repetition Selection Sequencing This afternoon I put together a small scratch program that demonstrates some of these concepts. Which produces:- Now includes some user interaction. Works nicely. Previous programs produced Spirograph(tm) type patterns. This program can be easily modified for this. …
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