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Continue reading →: National Coding Week (17th September 2018)Monday 17th September 2018 sees the start of National Coding Week. National Coding Week is all about encouraging people to give coding a go and with that in mind, and to help encourage anyone that reads my site and has not yet tried coding I thought a pre-National Coding Week…
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Continue reading →: BlackJack Part 1 (JavaScript)Looking for a new project in JavaScript that I have not done in Python, I got to thinking about arrays. As JavaScript allows us to generate random numbers and store variables (see “Scissor, Paper, Stone”) it should allow me to also recreate the card game of Blackjack or 21. For…
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Continue reading →: Scissor, Paper, Stone (JavaScript)One of the earlier programs I wrote in Python was Scissor, Paper, Stone. It’s an old game that most people learn as a child, the premise of which is; There are two (2) players. Each player must make a secret choice from 3 options (Scissor, Paper or Stone) The players…
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Continue reading →: Cron / The MagPi Magazine (Raspberry Pi)During my last post on Cron I hoped that my work may appear somewhere other than my website. Good news readers, my introduction to Cron is being published within The MagPi magazine issue 73 (September 2018). From the 30th August 2018 the issue can be purchased for £5.99, purchased on the Google…
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Continue reading →: Accessing A Browser’s JavaScript ConsoleJavaScript can be written in .js (JavaScript) files but can also be written directly into a web browsers JavaScript Console, which is a great way to see quick results from small bits of JavaScript coding. Today I will be looking at enabling the console within two browsers (Safari and Chrome).…
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Continue reading →: Summer Holiday Activities
Over here in the UK it is the school Summer Holidays. For parents this means finding activities to keep young minds active, interested and from saying the dreaded words of “I’m bored”. This can be hard when trying to keep educational / facts flowing over the summer break. For parents…
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Continue reading →: JavaScript Basics (Part 2)
Continuing on with yesterdays JavaScript learnings, and continuing to make notes for myself so that I can later refer to them: JavaScript uses camel-case and it is recommended that camel-case is used for variable names. e.g. firstName, surName, emailAddress. Like Python, JavaScript can concatenate words and letters whilst dealing with strings.…
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Continue reading →: Finally Taking Time To Learn JavaScript (JavaScript)
I first learned about Javascript back in 2003/2004 whilst completing a University course and then briefly touched upon it during my HNC web module in 2016/2017. Since then I’ve been focusing on Python as my primary language, however I’ve decided to expand and refresh/learn more JavaScript. Like Python, JavaScript can use…
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Continue reading →: Power UP @ Manchester Museum of Science and IndustryPower UP is a video games event running at Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry (Twitter: @msimanchester) between the 3rd and 19th August 2018. The official website for the event is https://www.msimanchester.org.uk/whats-on/power-up Power UP celebrates video games by allowing visitors to play video games from over the past 40 years.…
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Continue reading →: Cron – or a general update
I’ve spent the last few blog entries going over Cron stuff and think the issue ( DISPLAY=:0 played a part) was down to remote accessing and the way sessions display screens. I won’t go into too much detail tonight as I’m hoping that my work may appear somewhere else soon…
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