With the end of the academic year approaching, I decided to give Free Code Camp another mention and as there are now more courses available.

• Free Code Camp

Computing related

1 Responsive Web Design Certification 2 JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures (Beta) Certification 3 Front End Development Libraries Certification 4 Data Visualization Certification 5 Relational Database Certification 6 Back End Development and APIs Certification 7 Quality Assurance Certification 8 Scientific Computing with Python (Beta) Certification 9 Data Analysis with Python Certification 10 Information Security Certification 11 Machine Learning with Python Certification 12 College Algebra with Python Certification

Other courses

• Learn English for Developers
• A2 English for Developers (Beta) Certification

Earn free professional certifications:

• (New) Foundational C# with Microsoft Certification

Prepare for the developer interview job search:

• The Odin Project – freeCodeCamp Remix (Beta)
• Coding Interview Prep
• Project Euler
• Rosetta Code

Explore our Legacy Curriculum:

• Legacy Responsive Web Design Challenges
• Legacy JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Certification
• Legacy Python for Everybody

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Our mission: to help people learn to code for free. We accomplish this by creating thousands of videos, articles, and interactive coding lessons - all freely available to the public.

Donations to freeCodeCamp go toward our education initiatives, and help pay for servers, services, and staff.

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Updated 26/6/2024

We have been looking at MikeOS at what is now a sort of unofficial stem group. As this is mostly x86 assembler, I have compiled a list of resources to help learn this for anyone interested.

I have not fully checked out these resources, but they do seem good, you need to do your own research and learning

ARM

• arm-64-bit – RaspberryPi
• Arm assembler on the R-Pi
• Arm programming by example
• Arm assembler on the Pi Pico
• 32 bit arm core
• Other documentation on arm

RISC V

• RISC V guide
• RISC v getting started
• Wikipedia RISC V
• RISC V book
• Youtube video
• introduction-to-risc-v-and-risc-v-assembly-programming

iA86

• Intel IA86 developer
• IA-64 Tutorial pdf
• asm 64 handout pdf
• Intro to x86 programming

Other

• post : RISC-V 2024 Update: RISE, AI Accelerators & More
• Pine64
  • Pine 64 Wiki
  • Pine Oz64
• Risc OS on Raspberry Pi

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#Programming,#Development,#Assembler,#ARM,#x86,#IA-64,#RISCV,#Pine64,#Pine,#Assembler,#Hardware,#Boards

This was posted to the Fediverse by Jan Schaumann, @jschauma@mstdn.social

• Course website with all sample code and exercises here:
• Course videos

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#Education,#Learning,#Unix,#Advanced,#Programming

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I have downloaded the Repl.it app for GNU/Linux Amd64.
1. Switched to a root shell with su - 2. Navigated to where the .deb file was downloaded to 3. Entered the following

dpkg -i ./replit_1.0.0_amd64.deb

1. And got the following output dpkg-deb: error: archive './replit_1.0.0_amd64.deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up dpkg: error processing archive ./replit_1.0.0_amd64.deb (--install): dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: ./replit_1.0.0_amd64.deb

Issue seems to be the compression is using tar.zst, I have no idea what this is either, normally it is .tar.gz

Sharing here in case anyone else has a problem.

• Repl.it

Update

Asked on the Replit forum and it seems it may have something to do with my Debian version, see post here

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#Coding,#Development,#programming,#Cloud,#Virtual,#replit

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.

Useful Links

• Code Club
  • Projects page
• Scratch
• Hour of code

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#CodeClub,#Projects,#Python,#Scratch,#Coding.#Programming,#Children, #Education

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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#CodeClub,#Python.#Programming,#UserInput,#Testing

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.

Useful Links

• Code Club
  • Projects page
• Trinket
  • Py 5 Library
  • Py 5 documentation
• Scratch
• Hour of code

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#CodeClub,#Projects,#Python,#Scratch,#Coding.#Programming,#Children, #Education

This article on Jupyter notebook ties in nicely with a previous article on Scientific Writing so another really interesting article relating to this posted to the fediverse. This gives some useful tips and tricks to help you make the most of this powerful software.

You can read the article on Makeuseof here

Links

• Jupyter Notebook
• MakeUseOf

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#Tech #MakeUseOf #TechNews #IT via @morganeogerbc #ProductivityTricks #ProductivityTips #Programming #CodingTips #Python,#JupyterNotebook

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.

Useful Links

• Code Club
• hour of Code

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:-

• Saturday 19th August
• Saturday 2rd September

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#CodeClub,#HourOfCode,#Programming,#Computing,#Java,#JavaScript