Next code club is on Saturday 19th Jan 2019 at Paignton Library.
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Latest Scratch Projects
I have been creating some activities for Scratch 3. These are hosted on Github. I have links on my wiki section. Github + stackedit + markdown = easy on-line publishing and resource creation 🙂 I have also uploaded to ScratchEd.
Continue readingCode Club 5/1/2019 write up
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 readingCodecademy 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.
Continue readingCode Club 1/12/2018
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…
Continue readingCode Club 3/11/2018
A reminder that the next Code club is this Saturday at Paignton Library.
Continue readingHour of code 2018
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 readinggedit – 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…
Continue readingWeechat Tutorials 2
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. …
Continue readingCode club week 3
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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