Another successful tech jam. We had about 3 children, probably due to it being the start of the Easter Holidays. Progress has now been made with the platform game being worked on, as well as other projects. It is all one big learning experience. We now have a parent joining us as a volunteer. We…
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Update 2/4/2019
Been fairly busy recently. I am currently chasing up a few things post a recent CYPP (Children and Young people partnership) meeting. Hopefully something will come of my proposal for a skills group. I have also created a Voltage Divider calculator in Python. Nothing that special but useful for electronics. Details on github. A…
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I have been trying to find a way for a Scratch Sprite to jump, so that it is possible to go and build platform type games for example. Having looked around the solution presented here appears to fit what I wanted to do. However a modified version can also be found here. The main…
Continue readingCode Club 2/3/2019
Today was quiet. Two regulars along with two new members. This actually worked out well as I could spend a little time getting them started. I have found something out too. Going to https://codeclub.org/en/ has a link to the new Scratch 3.0 projects at https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/codeclub. However https://codeclubprojects.org/en-GB/ is still up as a website and…
Continue readingCode Club 2/3/2019
Next code club is on Saturday 2nd March 2019 at Paignton Library. Scratch, Python and more. More basic info on our Code Club page. Link to the Code Club Projects page. Scratch Website Python Website W3 Schools Trinket Website Also looking forward to more discussions on Twine. If you have an exiting Scratch account…
Continue readingCode Club 16/2/2019
Next code club is on Saturday 16th February 2019 at Paignton Library. More Scratch, Python and coding More basic info on our Code Club page. Scratch Website Trinket Website Also looking forward to more discussions on Twine.
Continue readingCode Club 2/2/2019
Next code club is on Saturday 2nd February 2019 at Paignton Library. More Scratch and Python and hopefully a new helper will be dropping in to see what we are doing. More basic info on our Code Club page. Scratch Website Trinket Website
Continue readingCode Club 19/1/2019
Next code club is on Saturday 19th Jan 2019 at Paignton Library.
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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.
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…
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