Paul Sutton – personal blog
Free Code Camp – Visual Design 5
Completed 10% more of the Applied visual design module with FreeCodeCamp so now reached 60% of the way through the module
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Legionella Risks
Further to my previous post on Legionnaires Disease [1] (11/5/2020). The advice from the HSE [2] can be found here
Not many people seem to be discussing this at the moment. There is a really good discussion on this on LinkedIn with Simon French [3] (Managing Director at Water Hygiene Training Ltd & Coronasafe Ltd). But this has to be a topic of discussion as United Kingdom starts to reopen.
Success is an iceburg
This was posted on Twitter on Saturday. Credit as follows
MindShift
@MindShiftKQED
There's a big difference between what people can see and what's going on below the surface.
Sketchnote by @sylviaduckworth https://pic.twitter.com/465gr7xRxa
I agree the points being raised here, people never seem to see what is going on under the surface.
Online and remote learning : Lets not forget privacy.
This is an excellent article by the Free software foundation on the importance of maintaing user / learner privacy while they are learning online.
Some interesting points being raised and some serious concerns about privacy, use of webcams and monitoring of students during tests etc.
Learners need to ask questions and not just accept this as the new normal.
#learning,#education,#online,#technology,#freedom,#privacy,#freesoftware,#fsf.
Action Counters Terrorism update.
Back in December 2019 I completed the Action Counters Terrorism course.
ACT Awareness e-learning is a new counter-terrorism (CT) CT awareness product designed for all UK based organisations and individuals. It provides nationally accredited, corporate CT guidance to help industry better understand and mitigate against current terrorist methodology.
The following e-learning modules are available:
Introduction to Terrorism Identifying Security Vulnerabilities How to Identify and Respond to Suspicious Behaviour How to Identify and Deal with a Suspicious Item What to do in the Event of a Bomb Threat How to Respond to a Firearms or Weapons Attack Summary and Supporting Materials
As of 22/5/2020 I have completed the updated version of this which adds SCaN which stands for See, Check and Notify. It is still useful to
#act,#action,#counters,#terrorism,#learning,#cpd,#police,#NaCTSO,#training,#England
Free Code Camp – Visual Design 4
Completed some more of the visual design module in FreeCodeCamp so now reached 50% of the way through the module
So lots of progress made on this, and more useful skills being developed.
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Collaboration with Overleaf
I attended the Overleaf Effective Collaboration webinar on Wednesday 20th May. This proved, once again to be very informative, useful and complements the other webinars nicely.
This webinar, specifically covered the features available to the different users of the system, the main difference with the free accounts includes the number of user who can collaborate and version history tracking.
I recently came across an excellent Overleaf curated article / report from 2017 on The Connected Culture of Collaboration Report
The document (pdf) can be downloaded free from the website and there is a citation guide too, if this is needed for your own articles or papers.
The webinar will be available on demand in due course.
References
#LaTeX, #overleaf, #collaboration, #report, #digital, #science,#writing,#publishing
Add more functions
I have added a few more maths functions to the application and also provided a clear function. There are still a few items to add to help improve debugging but the application is starting to take shape.
Notes
window = Tk()
window.title('Maths Application')
window.geometry("570x150") # w x h
window.resizable(0,0)
The above code is being modified as I go. So I am changing the window size depending on what is being displayed.
I have also made the Window title reflect the purpose of the application.
That the source code now has 'result' as a label rather than output. This will show up future screenshots.
The code for the above is as follows.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import Tkinter # note use of caps
from Tkinter import *
window = Tk()
window.title('Maths Application')
window.geometry("570x150") # w x h
window.resizable(0,0)
#define button actions
def btn1():
#convert box text in to integers
ent1 = int(entrytext.get())
ent2 = int(entrytext2.get())
#add the 2 integers and store in variable add
add = (ent1 + ent2)
print (add)
#insert value of variable add in to box outtext
outtext1.insert(0,str(add)) # insert response
def btn2():
#print("subtraction")
ent1 = int(entrytext.get())
ent2 = int(entrytext2.get())
#subtract the 2 integers and store in variable sub
sub = (ent1 - ent2)
#insert value of variable sub in to box outtext
outtext1.insert(0,str(sub)) # insert response
def btn3():
#print("multiply")
ent1 = int(entrytext.get())
ent2 = int(entrytext2.get())
#multiply the 2 integers and store in variable mul
mul = (ent1 * ent2)
#insert value of variable mul in to box outtext
outtext1.insert(0,str(mul)) # insert response
def btn4():
#print("divide")
ent1 = int(entrytext.get())
ent2 = int(entrytext2.get())
#multiply the 2 integers and store in variable div
div = (ent1 / ent2)
#insert value of variable mul in to box outtext
outtext1.insert(0,str(div)) # insert response
#clear boxes
def clear():
#print("clear boxes") # leave in for legacy testing
entrytext.delete(0, END) # clear input box
entrytext2.delete(0, END) # clear input box2
outtext1.delete(0, END) # clear output box
btn_tog2 = Button( window, text ='+', command=btn1) # add
btn_tog3 = Button( window, text ='-', command=btn2) # subtract
btn_tog4 = Button( window, text ='x', command=btn3) #multiply
btn_tog5 = Button( window, text ='/', command=btn4) #divide
btn_tog6 = Button( window, text ='Clear', command=clear) #clear
btn_exit = Button( window, text ='Exit',command=exit) #exit
# define some labels
box1 = Label(window, text="1st Value")
box2 = Label(window, text="2nd Value")
box3 = Label(window, text="Result")
#define entry box
entry1 = StringVar() # this is our entry box
entry2 = StringVar()
entrytext = Entry(window, textvariable=entry1) # this is our entry box
entrytext2 = Entry(window, textvariable=entry2) # this is our second entry box
#define out box
entry2 = StringVar() # this is our output box
outtext1 = Entry(window, textvariable=entry2) # this is our output box
#display boxes
entrytext.grid(row = 3, column = 2,) #display entry box
entrytext2.grid(row = 3, column = 3,) #display entry box
outtext1.grid(row = 3, column = 4,) #display output box
#place labels
box1.grid(row = 1 , column = 2, padx = 5, pady = 5)
box2.grid(row = 1 , column = 3, padx = 5, pady = 5)
box3.grid(row = 1 , column = 4, padx = 5, pady = 5)
#buttons
btn_tog2.grid(row = 4, column = 2, padx = 1, pady = 1) # addition button
btn_tog3.grid(row = 4, column = 3, padx = 1, pady = 1) # subtraction button
btn_tog4.grid(row = 5, column = 2, padx = 1, pady = 1) # multiply button
btn_tog5.grid(row = 5, column = 3, padx = 1, pady = 1) # divide button
btn_tog6.grid(row = 4, column = 6, padx = 1, pady = 1) # clear button
btn_exit.grid(row = 3, column = 6, padx = 1, pady = 1) # exit button
window.mainloop()
The code that I used for a previous application to detect if numerical values have been used is below but provided 'as is' for now.
def response():
msg = "error : must be a text value"
i = circletext.get()
y = i.isdigit()
l = len(circletext.get())
#print l
if y == True or l == 0:
circletext.insert(0,(msg))
else:
x = random.choice(RESPONSES)
circletext2.delete(0, END) # clear prev output
circletext2.insert(0,str(x)) # insert response
I will integrate a version of this in to the main code.
#python, #tkinter, #programming, #python, #graphic, #applications, #bugs, #troubleshooting, #howto, #paignton, #library, #virtual, #codeclub
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Addition Application
So following on from the previous posts, I am how sharing a small application, that makes use of what we have been learning.
This presents 2 input boxes and an output box, any values entered in to the first two, the sum is placed in to the last box.
This is not perfect, but getting there slowly.
We need to:-
The code for the above is as follows.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import Tkinter # note use of caps
from Tkinter import *
window = Tk()
window.title('App 1')
window.geometry("650x125") # w x h
window.resizable(0,0)
#define button actions
def btn1():
#convert box text in to integers
ent1 = int(entrytext.get())
ent2 = int(entrytext2.get())
#add the 2 integers and store in variable add
add = (ent1 + ent2)
print add
#instert value add in to box outtext
outtext1.insert(0,str(add)) # insert response
btn_tog2 = Button( window, text ='button1', command=btn1)
btn_exit = Button( window, text ='exit',command=exit)
# define some labels
box1 = Label(window, text="Entry 1: ")
box2 = Label(window, text="Entry 2: ")
box3 = Label(window, text="Ouput1: ")
#define entry box
entry1 = StringVar() # this is our entry box
entry2 = StringVar()
entrytext = Entry(window, textvariable=entry1) # this is our entry box
entrytext2 = Entry(window, textvariable=entry2) # this is our second entry box
#define out box
entry2 = StringVar() # this is our output box
outtext1 = Entry(window, textvariable=entry2) # this is our output box
#display boxes
entrytext.grid(row = 3, column = 2,) #display entry box
entrytext2.grid(row = 3, column = 3,) #display entry box
outtext1.grid(row = 3, column = 4,) #display output box
#place labels
box1.grid(row = 1 , column = 2, padx = 5, pady = 5)
box2.grid(row = 1 , column = 3, padx = 5, pady = 5)
box3.grid(row = 1 , column = 4, padx = 5, pady = 5)
#buttons
btn_tog2.grid(row = 3, column = 5, padx = 5, pady = 5)
btn_exit.grid(row = 3, column = 6, padx = 5, pady = 5)
window.mainloop()
#python, #tkinter, #programming, #python, #graphic, #applications, #bugs, #troubleshooting, #howto, #paignton, #library, #virtual, #codeclub
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Free Code Camp – Visual Design 3
Completed some more of the visual design module in FreeCodeCamp so now reached 37% of the way through the module
Lots of useful design tips in this section of the course, so great for making small adjustments to css, which can really help to improve the visual look of page(s).
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