Code Club 22/7/2023 Write up
We had three new starters today, so as everyone is interested in Minecraft, I started everyone off with the Hour of Code Minecraft activities. This went really well,. kept everyone engaged with lots of valuable learning taking place.
I have also figured out how to set up Rocks and diamonds so we can skip completed levels and carry on from where people got to previously. I need to do this as the computers reset each time they are turned off, which means that progress data is also lost.
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Next Code Club
The next code club is August 5th
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#CodeClub,#Projects,#Python,#Scratch,#Coding.#Programming,#Children,#Education
Code Club 22/7/2023
The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 22nd July 2023 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Code Club projects, hour of code and perhaps hour of code. Probably some more Rocks and diamonds.
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#Education
Code Club 1/7/2023 writeup
So today we did more of the usual coding. I spent some of the time trying to fix the issue I had with the Pi pico routine I have been working on. Please see earlier post.
This now appears to be fixed (or at least working a lot better than it was) and there should be video and photos up on the
library website and social media pages.
I will get a video made for this and uploaded to peertube and post the new code block in a new post.
Next week is the STEM Group on 8th July 11 to 15:00 at the library.
I have put some of the links from this below as a list.
Useful Links
If you also sign up to the Raspberry Pi foundation, you can track your own progress and collect badges. This is optional, as this presents more ways for data to be collected.
As before if you would like to save work, please sign up for a scratch or Trinket account so you can save project progress and carry on at home or at the next session.
Video
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#CodeClub,#Projects,#Python,#Scratch,#Coding.#Programming,#Children,
#Education
Code Club 1/7/2023
The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 1st July 2023 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Code Club projects, hour of code and perhaps hour of code.
Perhaps some more discussions around Technology, AI, Coding, etc.
I spent some time Friday afternoon setting up the room
I have put some of the links from this below as a list.
Useful Links
If you also sign up to the Raspberry Pi foundation, you can track your own progress and collect badges. This is optional, as this presents more ways for data to be collected.
As before if you would like to save work, please sign up for a scratch or Trinket account so you can save project progress and carry on at home or at the next session.
Video
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#CodeClub,#Projects,#Python,#Scratch,#Coding.#Programming,#Children,
#Education
Scratch Frog Jump
I have created this for code club members.
This is what we are going to make, when you click on the frog it will jump up, come back down and make a croak sound.
- Add the background.,
- Select the frog from the animals section of spites.
- Finally add some code to the sprite, you will need to choose the frog sound.
Notes
The code to reset the position isn't needed, unless you add other code that will move the frog left / right for example and you need to reset back to original position.
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#CodeClub,#Game,#Animation.#FrogJump
Networking and SSh
I have decided to republish these links as there are a few people on the Fediverse who work or are involved in InfoSec and CyberSecurity.
These videos are a starting point for understanding networking and also SSH which allows remote login to remote computer.
So next up are the links to the videos on Networking and another video on OpenSSH (SSH being Secure SHell of course.
I am reposting links to previous blog posts that looked at these topics:-
I can be contacted on Fediverse / mastodon, search for @[email protected].
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#GNULinux,#Shell,#Bash,#Scripting,#Nano,#Editor,#InfoSec,#Cybersecurity,#CodeClub,#PaigntonLibrarySTEMGroup
NANO and Shell scripting
I have decided to republish these links as there are a few people on the Fediverse who work or are involved in InfoSec and CyberSecurity. These videos are a starting point as it is very useful to understand how to use the GNU/Linux command line along with related tools in general.
You may find the links on the BASH Basics post useful
I am reposting links to previous blog posts that looked at these topics:-
I can be contacted on Fediverse / mastodon, search for @[email protected].
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#GNULinux,#Shell,#Bash,#Scripting,#Nano,#Editor,#InfoSec,#Cybersecurity,#Video,#CodeClub,#PaigntonLibrarySTEMGroup
Code Club 17/6/2023 reminder and update
The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 17th June 2023 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Code Club projects. The write up from last session is here and the write up from Saturdays STEM group event is here.
I spent some time Friday afternoon setting up the room
I have put some of the links from this below as a list.
Useful Links
If you also sign up to the Raspberry Pi foundation, you can track your own progress and collect badges. This is optional, as this presents more ways for data to be collected.
As before if you would like to save work, please sign up for a scratch or Trinket account so you can save project progress and carry on at home or at the next session.
Video
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#CodeClub,#Projects,#Python,#Scratch,#Coding.#Programming,#Children,
#Education
Code Club 17/6/2023
The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 17th June 2023 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Code Club projects. The write up from last session is here and the write up from Saturdays STEM group event is here.
I have put some of the links from this below as a list.
Useful Links
If you also sign up to the Raspberry Pi foundation, you can track your own progress and collect badges. This is optional, as this presents more ways for data to be collected.
As before if you would like to save work, please sign up for a scratch or Trinket account so you can save project progress and carry on at home or at the next session.
Video
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#CodeClub,#Projects,#Python,#Scratch,#Coding.#Programming,#Children,
#Education
Raspberry Pi – Micropython book
I now have a copy of the Raspberry Pi, MicroPython book which is aimed at users of the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board.
I will bring this to the meeting today, along with some other resources. I also bought a Raspberry Pi Pico. I can experiment with this at home before Saturday.
So hopefully, we can do some more hardware / software hacking with this.
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#Hacking