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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ToriOS Manual v2 – 1
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…
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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.
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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…
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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 readingjoe text editor – enable line numbers
When using a text editor it is sometimes really useful to have line numbers. This is especially useful when programming as sometimes an error message will indicate which line has a potential problem, it may not always be this line but it is a starting point. If you are using the joe text editor…
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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…
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This looks like an interesting development. Announcing the Arduino Command Line Interface (CLI)
Continue readingWorksheets and programming resources 1
I am working on a set of worksheets to explain / demonstrate various programming ideas. However as Scratch 3.0 is very close to release I am using this as a basis for these resources. I will be releasing under some sort of creative commons license, however as I am also looking for paid work…
Continue readingUpdates 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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