Completed some more of the visual design module in FreeCodeCamp so now reached 37% of the way through the module
Lots of useful design tips in this section of the course, so great for making small adjustments to css, which can really help to improve the visual look of page(s).
Happy to provide help and support via decentralised social media. I can be contacted on Mastodon here. You can get a free account on the http://qoto.org instance by following this link.
Code club today was very productive, we had 8 young people attending all of whom were engaged in either Scratch or the Free Code Camp (FCC) curriculum.
We have now moved on to CSS, and we had one attendee starting with HTML. So in all, this course is actually proving to be popular.
Certificates have been awarded for the completion of the HTML module.
Good to see Ryan again and he lent his expertise too.
Next week is the South Devon Tech Jam – (14/3/2020) from 11 till 15:00. The week after we are back to code club (21/3/2020)
Hopefully, I will have figured out, why, when I log in to FCC at the library, it doesn't show my progress. Not that it matters too much.
As we are working through the FreeCodeCamp (FCC) Responsive Web Design course at Code Club. I decided to investigate, if the code developed in FCC could be pasted directly into a project on the Repl,it website.
It appears the answer is yes, as the screen below demonstrates.
This is really useful, especially as the image also displays. This allows learners to develop projects directly from what they are learning with FCC.
One of the final exercises for this HTML component sets up a very basic webpage with the various tags in the right place.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>The best page ever</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>The best page ever</h1>
<p>Cat ipsum dolor sit amet, jump launch to pounce upon little yarn mouse, bare fangs at toy run hide in litter box until </p>
</body>
</html>
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.
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.
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 .
Today at Code Club we had 8 attendees, which is a really good So we had more scratch, and did some more work on the website project.
There was some interest in Micro:bits but not that much. This is something for future sessions. Or even a dedicated session at the library for this. Which may work better.
I also trying and get a Lego Mindstorms Robot built, but this takes time.
We also had Lucy, from the Tech Jam drop in and this resulted in a few e-mail between myself and Lucy go discuss learning platforms.
