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South Devon Tech Jam update – Feb 2020

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At the Tech Jam on Saturday we will hopefully be discussing learning platforms. To help facilitate this, Lucy has found a video that explains the difference between Freecodecamp and Codecademy and asks which is better. The conclusion is interesting but the video does raise a few good points.

I also found a video that goes through some of the basics of repl.it

We would like to play these videos and then have a discussion.

We perhaps also discuss the Developer Roadmap as this links in to the above discussion. Free Code Camp is being used by some of the attendees at Code Club.

Hopefully the Tech Jam will complement the Free Code Camp learning by covering issues such as User Experience.

The Tech Jam has other things going on such as RetroPie and takes place in rooms 10/11 & 12 at the library.

SUPERBOWL RESULT

This years Superbowl took place on Sunday 2nd February 2020.

Kansas city chiefs 31 – 20 San Francisco 49ers.

#football, #nfl, #fixtures, #results, #update, #postseason, #superbowl,

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2020 Six Nations Rugby Results

This weekend sees the start of the 2020 six nations Rugby

Sat 1st Feb

Wales 42-0 (FT) (HT 21-0) Italy 14:15 Ireland 19-12 (FT) (10-6 HT) Scotland 16:45

Sunday 2nd Feb

France 24-17 (FT) (0-17 HT) England 15:00

#rugby, #sixnations, #sport, #fixtures, #results

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SUPERBOWL

This years Superbowl takes place on Sunday 2nd February 2020.

Kansas city chiefs vs San Francisco 49ers.

#football, #nfl, #fixtures, #results, #update, #postseason, #superbowl,

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Code Club 1st Feb 2020 Write up

We had a busy code club today, 9 young people and 1 parent. More work on FreeCodeCamp and scratch, which is great.

We now have 3 young people signed up (or going to sign up) with FreeCodeCamp so potentially they can make some real progress, and gain some very valuable employability skills at the same time. By using websites such as Repl.it, to put these new skills in to practice it allows different forms of learning to take place but this should enhance learning too.

We have about 3 children working on scratch either their own projects or from the CodeClub resources.

Next week 8th Feb is the South Devon tech jam then Code Club is back on the 15th Feb.

South Devon Tech Jam reminder – Feb 2020

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The February 2020 tech jam will be on Saturday 8th February at Paignton Library and information Centre.

Time : 11am to 15:00 Cost : £2

Website : http://www.sdtj.org.uk.

What are we hoping to have :-

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#southdevon,#technology,#meetup,#event,#paignton,#coding,#hardware,#retropie

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2020 Six Nations Rugby

This weekend sees the start of the 2020 six nations Rugby

Sat 1st Feb

Wales vs Italy 14:15 Ireland vs Scotland 16:45

Sunday 2nd Feb

France vs England 15:00

#rugby, #sixnations, #sport, #fixtures, #results

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This weekend, 1st and 2nd Feb is FOSDEM 2020, one of the many annual free software conferences which are held in different locations around the world.

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.

#freesoftware, #fosdem, #brussles, #2020,

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Code Club 1/2/2020 reminder

Code Club 01/02/2020

The next Code Club will be Tomorrow: Saturday 1st February at Paignton Library and information Centre.

Carrying on from what we were doing on 18/1/2020, If anyone is interested in the Hour Of Code activity, we can have a go at that too.

More Scratch 3.0 coding, which is great and a good starting point before moving on to other programming languages.

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Rocksndiamonds. which I hope we can eventually use to learn level layout.

We can also take a look at the Tech Pledge. See what people think about this as an idea to make the internet a nicer place. I will have copies printed out.

Also hope to get some feedback and input on my e-safety for coding website project that I am working on in repl.it .

References and further information

#coding, #codeclub, #programming, #scratch, #python, #html, #css, #javascript,#coding

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Youtube-dl out of date

The youtube-dl tool on Debian 10 is out of date, it seems even the sid version is behind, by a good few months.

After some searching I have found a way to fix this.

Please note you need to do you OWN RESEARCH in to fixing this. I am not responsible for loss or problems caused by following what I have put here.

Firstly I was getting the following error

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JSHubLg7NE [youtube] 0JSHubLg7NE: Downloading webpage [youtube] 0JSHubLg7NE: Downloading video info webpage ERROR: 0JSHubLg7NE: YouTube said: This video is unavailable.

The webpage here was a little helpful

*https://askubuntu.com/questions/1200552/youtube-dl-troubleshooting-error-this-video-is-unavailable

In providing an explanation and some fixes.

Firstly on Debian the internal update option is disabled so

youtube-dl -U

Won't work, reading further this seems to download the latest version

While the above instructions worked for me, The old version was still installed, this needs to be removed so doing this before hand may help.

However if you want to check the current version before removing you can use:

youtube-dl —version

Then remove with:

apt remove youtube-dl -

The instructions

wget http://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

You will still need to change the permissions as per above website. I am not repeating them here, you need to read up.

However – Debian appears to expect youtube-dl to be in /usr/bin.

The above solution downloads to /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl, you can either put in the path manually when running as in:

/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JSHubLg7NE

Which gets rather tedious to keep doing that.

In order to get round this, I have copied the binary to where Debian wants it

cp /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl /usr/bin/youtube-dl

Which seems to work for me, but is probably the wrong way to go about doing this.

You can now find the version that is now installed by using

youtube-dl —version

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Hopefully this is useful. You need to do your own research but the problem is fixable.

Once you have upgraded you can download youtube videos in the normal way with youtube-dl.

#debian, #youtube-dl, #error, #fix, #solution, #gnu, #linux

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