Code Club 2/9/2023 reminder
The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 2nd September 2023, 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Code Club and hour of code projects and hopefully also the Python Projects.
I have added more links below to try and reflect our current set of activities.
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#CodeClub,#Python,#HourOfCode,#Scratch,#Minecraft,#Themes, #Java,#Programmng
Code Club intro video
I made a quick intro video to try and explain what we are about a little more. Hopefully the sound is OK, it may need turning up.
I made a vokoscreen video showing the Hour Of Code Mario game creator activity.
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Code Club 2/9/2023
The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 2nd September 2023, 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Code Club and hour of code projects and hopefully also the Python Projects.
I have added more links below to try and reflect our current set of activities.
Useful Links
Tags
#CodeClub,#Python,#HourOfCode,#Scratch,#Minecraft,#Themes, #Java,#Programmng
Code Club 19/8/2023 Write up
So this week, we started the attendees with more Hour of Code activities. We are slowly starting to move towards learning text based programming languages and away from Scratch.
The hour of code activities allow for block programming but the resulting block code be viewed as java based code which is really useful for building that link.
In order to support this I had a go at Mario secret advantures which helps to build some of the many important features of gaming, movement, collision, scoring etc.
I have just made a video and uploaded to peer tube, my system is a little slow so I have left out the music part, but the main point of this exercise is to use loops to reduce code needed.
Next code club 2nd September.
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#CodeClub,#Projects,#Python,#Scratch,#Coding.#Programming,#Children, #Education
Code Club – testing input
Once you have code working nicely, it is a good idea to add in error checking so that when asking for user input, what is put in to the program matches what is required.
We can ask a user for a numerical value so we know how many times to repeat the loop. How do we test for this.
letter = rawinput(“Enter your name “) i = letter.isalpha() while i != True: print(“Input MUST use letters”) letter = rawinput(“Name “) i = letter.isalpha() print letter
In this example, the user is asked to enter their name, this is stored and checked that is is actually a alphabetical character a-z or A-Z.
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Code Club 19/8/2023
The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 19th August 2023 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Code Club and hour of code projects and hopefully also the Python Projects.
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#CodeClub,#Projects,#Python,#Scratch,#Coding.#Programming,#Children, #Education
Code Club 5/8/2023 Write uo
Very productive today with attendees working through some of the Hour of code activities, including the more advanced activities which use the Java programming language. So looking good going forward.
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Next sessions
Next week the STEM group will be in room 12 ONLY as part of the library Family Fun Festival. The IT learning centre will be locked as I can't cover both rooms.
Next Club(s) will be on:-
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Code Club 5/8/2023
The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 5th August 2023 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Code Club projects, hour of code and some more Rocks and diamonds.
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#CodeClub,#Projects,#Python,#Scratch,#Coding.#Programming,#Children, #Education
Code Club : Rocks and diamonds level skip
Due to the way the computers at Paignton Library are set up. Data is deleted upon logout. This is not very helpful as you can't save progress on games such as rocks and diamonds between sessions.
It is possible to jump levels, so you can skip to where you got to in the last session and carry on. The process is a little fiddly but I can't figure out another solution at present.
So hopefully this is useful.
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Next Code Club
The next code club is August 5th
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Code Club : Hour of code
So we are using Hour of code activities at Code Club. I am including a short video below just to illustrate how to get started with the Minecraft activities, however you can use the other themed coding activities such as Star Wars and Frozen among others.
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Next Code Club
The next code club is August 5th
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