Hi all,
This weeks notes are all about making text bold and using italics. In the notes we learn about these new tags and add them to the Coderdojo Athenry information page we have been working on. As we go along we can add what we have learned to this webpage! 
Next week we will learn more tags! Remember if you have any questions to just send me an email, my email address is in the notes! Here are this weeks notes! WebsiteDevelopment4
This week we looked at code for the bare bones of a race car game.
We started off by just moving a block around the screen and then rotating it. Then we figured out how to drive it around the screen.
Finally, we looked at how to give the impression of movement to our car sprite by scrolling the track around behind it.
For next week I want the Python group to look at Scratch Beginners week 2 and week 3 as we are going to attempt the same thing in Pygame.
You can find our code from this week here.
Hi All,
This week the notes are mostly a refresher because a lot of ground has been covered in the last two weeks and I want to give a chance to anybody who wants to start learning HTML a chance to catch up. The notes just recap what we have done so far and also explain why it’s not a good idea to use Microsoft Word to make our HTML files! The notes also show that there are some excellent websites on the internet for learning HTML. You can type the HTML on one side, and see what kind of page this code creates on the other. This is super for experimenting with the different HTML tags so give it a go! When I went around to the classes this week some people did mention to me that they were interested in learning HTML, remember if you ever have any questions feel free to email me or talk to me at the Coderdojo every Saturday!
James
Today in the Python group we looked at how a few simple changes can change the look and feel of a game. Our space Defender game uses code recycled from last weeks Bunnies And Badgers game combined with a few new sprites to make a completely new game. We also looked at how to use Geometry when moving sprites around the screen.
movex=math.cos(angle_z)*10
movey=math.sin(angle_z)*10
xpos+=movex
ypos-=movey
The above code calculates how many pixels the x and y coordinates of our sprite needs to be changed for it to move 10 pixels in the direction of angle_z. You can learn more about Sin and Cos here.
Sorry for being a little late putting this up. This week in the Python group we worked on an online tutorial which is available at Beginning Game Programming for Teens with Python. If you copy the folder Bunnies_and_Badgers from Dropbox here onto your own computer it will make getting started a little bit easier.
Hi everybody!
This weeks notes are all about putting headings, paragraphs, links and images on our webpages! Have a look at the notes and play around with the new tags that you can learn from them. If you have any questions just send me an email! My email address is on the last slide of this weeks notes. I am going to be at Gairmscol Mhuire during Coderdojo on Saturdays so you can ask me questions there too!
Here is a link to this weeks notes!
Happy Coding,
James
Hi all, the Web Development stream starts this week. It will run alongside the other streams so you can still learn Scratch, Python or Minecraft Modding on Saturdays and spend a small amount of time learning HTML during the week. HTML is fun and the thing we need most is ideas about how webpages should look or ideas about what to put on them! We can then work together to translate these ideas in to webpages! If you are interested have a look at my presentation on getting started with HTML!
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Start up Eclipse and select the workspace that Forge created, in the Eclipse folder under Forge:
Note: if the workspace is empty, make sure that you ran the command gradlew eclipse and that you selected the correct folder.
Press the green Run icon: you should see messages in the Eclipse console window and Minecraft will launch and will initially have 4 mods.
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Today the Python group started to experiment with Pygame.
Pygame is a software library that has modules for graphics, sound, and other features that games commonly use.
We looked at two programes from “Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python” by Al Sweigart which are available here.
Next week we will go through the code line by line.
Today we continued looking at some more new topics in Al Sweigart’s Hangman game http://inventwithpython.com/chapter9.html. Next week we will be looking at the game itself. The source code from today’s code snippets are here https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nlqaivbro7r5m9a/iRYEIa6Cti. Here are today’s slides.python session7
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