Code Club 21/1/2023 Write up

We had a really busy Code Club today, with a mixture of things going on. I think we are making progress with Godot. To be fair there is a BIG learning curve here and some of the attendees are also having to learn other skills first. We have something useful to aim for longer term.

Most of the attendees today were on scratch, with some showing some really excellent skills and also a desire to go forward. I am keen to encourage that, while at the same time understanding my own limits in helping attendees move forward to other development systems.

We did have a discussion on the Mendelay reference manager There is a guide to using this with MS word here. We do only have MS word 2013 at the library, this may have to be raised as an issue at some point. I can't help with this that much as I use Overleaf and LaTeX but happy to support people where I can.

Please see my post for related links

I also fixed the various computers flagged as not working, IT have sent a new power plug for the computer where this was missing, it now works but is not going in to windows properly. A replacement monitor has also been sent, so with a little moving things around we are back to a near full IT suite.

We had a few new starters, who also attend the English classes in room 10, so I got them started on Scratch, and also made a start on trying to tidy some of the resources up, binned a load of old stuff that won't ever get used anyway.

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