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Continue reading →: Downloading Web Files Without A Browser
This evening I’m relaxing and having a play with downloading web files without the need for a web browser, writing my notes as I go. POWERSHELL Powershell allows for an webrequest to save (or outfile) the requested file to a local location. My early attempt at a PowerShell script to…
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Continue reading →: Astro Pi @ Salford and Manchester Weekend Code Club
Sunday 8th October 2017 will see Salford and Manchester Weekend Code Club tackle Astro Pi: Mission Zero. The club will give attendees the opportunity to write a program in Python that will display a message and take the temperature, and potentially even have their code sent to the International Space…
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Continue reading →: BASIC on BBC iPlayer, Changing DNS Settings via Powershell
This week I have been expanding my knowledge by working my way through the modules on freecodecamp.org; it’s free coding training so what’s not to like? The awesome news this week is that the BBC has added some of it’s 1980s archive episodes about BASIC to the BBC iPlayer. Concepts…
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Continue reading →: def September()
Wow, what a week. I completed the Object Oriented Program (Python) course via FutureLearn; available here: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/object-oriented-principles . It should be done over 4 weeks but I really got into creating the text based adventure game and figuring out how to generate enemies/items in rooms. This weekend I attended my…
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Continue reading →: Object Oriented Programming (Python)
The 2017 school term has begun and in the next few weeks I’m looking forward to starting the new term of the schools code club. In the mean time I am continuing my own learning with some object oriented programming (Python) via Future Learn. The course can be found here:…
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Continue reading →: Summer Break – Powershell
Sorry it has been a while since I last posted. The final Code Club went really well and over the course of our initial coding term (6 weeks) we only last 1 pupil, which was in the final week due to illness. I cannot wait for September for the club…
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Continue reading →: One Hour
One hour. Originally I thought that it would be hard to keep a young person interested in coding for that amount of time each week after a day in school. After another successful Code Club lesson I have come to realise that one hour flies by way too fast. Children…
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Continue reading →: Code Club – Lesson 2
It is amazing how fast a week flows by when you have something fun to look forward to. After spending the week applying for Code Club end of year packs, reading up on/applying for Picademy and reading/preparing for lesson 2, it was soon time our Code Club’s 2nd lesson. My…
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Continue reading →: Code Club – Lesson 1
15:20. Ten minutes until the end of school and the beginning of our first code club. I sit anxiously in the school’s reception area. Am I sure that I can do this? What if turn out is poor? 15:30. The school bell rings. I hear the excitement and chatter of…
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Continue reading →: Code Club – Beginnings
Working in IT I have a keen interest in all things computer related including the various languages that programs can be written in. I remember spending time on a VTech computer playing with BASIC and being amazed at typing: 10 print “Hello” Run And then seeing the LCD screen display…
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