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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Weechat 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. …
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Just a quick update. I will hopefully running the Paignton Code Club from 15th September 2018. I am NOT taking over on a permanent basis, but want to keep the club running until the group leader is able to take over and carry on. I can then go back to just helping out…
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Exeter Raspberry Pi Jam – April 2018 Presented by 2.times do, and held at Exeter Library This months Exeter Pi jam was really busy and varied. Held in the Rougemont room, there were lots of people including families all hacking away at various projects. Outside of the main room on the way in was the…
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Given all the current media attention given to Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. This demonstrates real anger at how our personal data is potentially (mis)used and how people are using this. The consequences are now proving costly to those involved. If you want to #deletefacebook, then please consider joining the free, decentralized, privacy aware and…
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DWP Project 4 Another session at the DWP today in Torquay, Controlling a PiStop with Scratch1.4 using the Pi GPIO pins, this went really well and we got a nice sequence of lights going. Next session we will be starting to look at WordPress. So this will be setting up a free WordPress thinking about…
Continue readingHour of Code Update Dec 2017
This is your impact Last month I was given the opportunity to speak about this movement on CBS This Morning, and to celebrate a special milestone: 10 million girls on Code.org. Hadi Partovi Founder, Code.org
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As my notepad program now has an option to encode text using ROT13, I have written a very basic (and rough) program to just do that. The program is very basic, and just encodes the text, the code is as follows: For reference the original code can be found here. The program is more…
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Now that I have my Raspberry Pi traffic light project auto running from start up. To do this I had to set it so that the Raspberry Pi auto logins. The process for doing this is described here. Then edit .bash_profile so the programs I want to start are started up from there. As I…
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XUBUNTU MENU EDITOR The Xubuntu menu editor can be found in the settings section of the main xubuntu menu. I decided to make a blog post so that people can find the How to on line. The online documentation can be found at http://wiki.smdavis.us/doku.php?id=menulibre_usage
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