I have a few certificates for anyone who has completed the HTML element of the FCC Responsive Web Design Course.
As the projector / Whiteboard, that is attached to the teacher computer, appears to be working (and also running Windows 10) we may try and make use of this during the session.
On a related note to the above course, the Developer Road Map is interesting.
February 14th is not simply valentines day. It is also an opportunity to show your love for free software and thank the world wide community who work hard to develop free software.
I have been working through the first part of the FreeCodeCamp responsive web design course and have now completed all 28 exercises for the HTML part of the course.
I will also be working on this at Code Club, the South Devon Tech Jam and supporting other learners who are undertaking this course at the above events.
This is proving popular, with those who are undertaking this course and a great way to learn essential IT / Computing skills.
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I am now going to start on the CSS section of the course. As this will help me support the learners as they move up to this.
Today we had about 6-8 attendees over the session. We were mostly engaged with FreeCodeCamp. Most of the younger attendees started or are working their way through the HTML section of the Responsive Web Design Course.
Lucy and myself are also undertaking this too, so that we can try and provide help / support as needed.
Paul Bennett was busy diagnosing and fixing a BBC Micro that Lucy brought in to be looked at. Lucy and Paul also set up a STEM hub account for the jam so we can hopefully get some STEM ambassadors in to help.
It was also good to catch up with Stuart, who I know from previous employment, he is interested in learning Python so I set him up with a Pi and one of the python books I have access too.
In all, a very productive day. Next week (15th Feb) is Code Club so the attendees who come to code club will be carrying on with free code camp at their own pace.
We are now starting to develop some focus for the event and achieve some good learning outcomes. Hopefully in March we can also set up a retro area with RetroPie and other retro hardware that we have access to.
I found a link to this on Friendica social network. This looks at features which will be in the upcoming release of Linuxmint 20.
The link to the Tec Robust article can be found here worth a read if you are using Mint.
Looks like there will be updates to some of the default Apps, as well as Mint 20 being shipped with Cinnamon 4.4. It also looks like there is a new LXDE 4 which is the Debiab edition.
The ZX Spectrum was a computer released by Sinclair Research back in 1982. It was built around the Zilog Z80 8 bit CPU.
Along with the Commodore 64, The ZX Spectrum was a very popular computer back in the 80's and early 90's and there were many classic games made during this period. Some modern games can trace their roots back to the 80's. Thanks to projects such as RetroPie, retro games can be played on modern hardware.
You can now play classic games such as Jet Set Willy in emulators, for operating systems such as Linux, MacOS and Windows. You can also play games, in a web browser, which is great for going back to your childhood memories of 8 bit gaming without having to set up an emulator.
One such site is http://www.onsite-computers.co.uk, which offers over 200 classic games. Some games have been written as recently as the 2000's so the developer community is still out there.
This is the main spectrum screen, from here you could for example load games and type in Sinclair Basic programs, also called Speccy BASIC.
Manic Miner in a browser