Paul Sutton

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Code Club 19/2/2022 Writeup

Another really busy code club today, a few new starters, so we got to work using Scratch and also hour of code. This is proving really popular, some attendees are undertaking more advanced activities, and others are carrying on with HTML/CSS

No Lego WeDo today, due to those attendees not being able to attend, however, Loic (one of the library staff) did get the Lego Mind storms working which is going to be really good going forward and also good for the STEM group meetings.

The next Club will be on Saturday 5th March 2022 @ Paignton Library. Please contact the library to book.

Next STEM Group meeting is 12th March.

We will carry on with what we were doing today.

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#CodeClub,#FreeCodeCamp,#Microbit,#Scratch,#Python,#WebDesign, #Lego,#Coding,#Education,#LookingForWork,#WeDo,#MindStorms

Please contact Paignton Library.

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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#CodeClub,#FreeCodeCamp,#Microbit,#Scratch,#Python,#WebDesign, #Lego,#Coding,#Education,#LookingForWork

Please contact Paignton Library.

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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#CodeClub,#FreeCodeCamp,#Microbit,#Scratch,#Python,#WebDesign, #Lego,#Coding,#Education,#LookingForWork

Next Code Club Saturday 19th Feb 2022

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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#technology #opensource #programming #coding #Python #OpenCV

Code Club Saturday 6th November part 2

I spent about ½ an hour on Friday setting up and preparing for Code Club, here are a few photos of the room all set up and ready to go.

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 3

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#Paignton,#Library,#CodeClub,#Coding,#Programming,#Scratch,#HTML,#Python,#More,#Tech

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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#Paignton,#Library,#CodeClub,#Coding,#Programming,#Scratch,#HTML,#Python,#More,#Tech

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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#Coding,#Programming,#Scratch,#Python,#HTML,#CSS,#Python,#MicroBit,#RaspberryPi,#Lego,#FreeCodeCamp,#More

Confy – Conferences schedule viewer

This was mentioned at the South Devon Tech Jam in May 2021, so thank you to Seabass for this. It is a conference schedule viewer, has been used as events such as Fosdem, so looks really good. I think Noisytoot was trying to compile this, so hopefully get an update over the next month and perhaps at the next Jam on June 12th. Or perhaps next week at the DCGLUG meet, Saturday 15th May 2021 @ 12:00 on jit.si.

I am also at a Debian Conference 2021 planning meeting on Monday 10th May, so will give this a mention too. Could be useful.

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#FreeSoftware,#Conference,#Schedule,#Viewer,#Gtk3, #libhandy,#Python3,#python-gobjects,#Meson,#Ninja

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Website on pi

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I spent some time on last night, setting up a mini web server on m Raspberry pi.

So running a http server on a Raspberry Pi.

For this project I am just using the python3-test-server package,

  1. Install python3-test-server
  2. Create a directory to hold some html files
  3. Change to this directory
  4. Create a very basic html file e.g index.html
  5. run python3 -m http.server:7800 where 7800 is the port you want to use

web server on pi

In the browser go to ip:7800

Website on pi

What I have done here, however is

  • Run the server on the pi,
  • Connected via ssh to create the site files and run the server
  • Edited the basic website on the pi via ssh, by running a text editor

  • To copy other files directly from my main PC to the Pi i used

    • scp file.jpg pi@ip:path e.g
      • scp file.jpg pi@ip:/home/pi/html/

I have, gone a little further than this:

In order to share my free software video dvd (and other resources) with people I:-

  • Uploaded files to the server
  • Created a web link to the iso file
  • Edited my router firewall so it would allow a connection to the pi

I then shared the appropriate IP address with a friend via irc so he could download the ISO file, and it worked really well.

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#YearOfTheFediverse,#httpServer,#website,#html,#css, #Python,#Firewall,#Networking,ProblemSolving,#Skills,#IT

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Paignton library summer virtual Code Club-4

Further to previous post

Carrying on with a Python theme. If you have been following this Virtual Code Club since March, then you will have completed the modules, so I don't think it is fair to keep repeating this.

It look like Repl.it now supports Turtle graphics, which is great for the Code Club modules.

Repl.it supports the following:-

Pgzero – This is a simpler framework for teaching using creation of games.

So feel free to check out these and the websites and see if you can get coding games in Python, as Repl.it is collaborative then it makes it easier to work as part of small teams on this.

I am on Repl.it as @zleap

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