Code Club 19/2/2022
The next Club will be on Saturday 19th February 2022 @ Paignton Library. Please contact the library to book.
We will carry on with what we were doing last session, hopefully expand on what we were doing with the Micro:bit
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Code Club 5/2/2022 – Write up
A real mixture today, before the session started I quickly put together a project for the Micro:bit, partly to make sure it was all working properly. The result is in the video below.
We are now working on several different projects / learning objectives.
A few of the younger members are on Scratch, others are on HTML / CSS and Python. I showed one of our new members the Lego WeDo, so hopefully we can get that up and running at the STEM group meeting on the 12th or almost certainly at the next Code Club session. It just needs someone who can sit down and put it together.
Moving between different groups of attendees, is quite a challenge, but one I am happy to accept and work with. This, of course, is all good practice for working in schools and supporting learners. Learners would, be at different ability levels at least. In the case of code club, I have children / young people aged 7 to 14.
I also had a chat with the staff at the Library, we need to work out what is now needed to be purchased to get the Lego Mind storms in a state where it can be used. Having the Raspberry Pi's + Brick Pi module is fine, but these are the original pis, with about 4gb cards, so there is no guarantee we can get these working properly with the Lego. So it may be easier to buy the new EV3 brick on it's own for use with the kit we do have.
Pi's can be repurposed.
So a good session, a few new attendees which is always good. More parent / guardians staying is very welcome. It is rather challenging getting things to work, note to self, Repl.it has a dedicated Python + turtle module.
I may in fact BIN all the code club printouts, they are for Scratch 2, so don't fully match up properly, and can cause confusion. All activities are online anyway.
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Next Code Club Saturday 19th Feb 2022
Moonhack 2022
Moonhack is a free international event bringing kids from across the world together for a week of coding! Suitable for kids ages 8-15, it's a free, easy and hands-on way to get coding, no matter where you are. Over the past 6 years, more than 150,000 kids have coded as part of Moonhack. founding partners
Details for 2022 are still due to be announced, however there is no reason why you can't look at lasts years projects and think about forming a team for this years Contest.
In fact why not use the Paignton Library STEM Group meetings as an opportunity to get a team together, meet up and see what help / support is needed, then look at registering your team.
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Open CV Tutorial
Open Computer Vision Tutorial. This looks interesting and something else to have an experiment with at some point. Would also be good at the Paignton Library STEM group meetings.
Posted to Mastodon on 23/12/2021 by Danie
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Book on Haskell
If anyone is interested in learning Haskell, then this book may interesting :-
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Code Club Saturday 6th November
The next Paignton Library Code Club is Saturday 6th November 2021. Usual time.
We will just carry on from where we left off last time, catch up on what has been undertaken since the last code club.
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Linux Screen reader
I found this earlier this week, looks like a really great project, so another great find from the Fediverse.
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Code Club 4/10/2021
I am back at Code Club today, 2nd session since our return. If you are still not sure what Code Club is, then you have clearly being living in a cave since about 2012. Anyway, it is a coding club for children, generally 9-13 years of age.
The Paignton Club is a little more advanced, in that some of the attendees are working through a responsive web design course.
It would be really good to get MORE code clubs in Torbay, and in fact would be really nice if those clubs could collaborate, share expertise, maybe some resources.
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Write your own compiler
Another post found on Mastodon. This was posted by Dr. Brian Callahan.
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