1000+ views!!

Hi guys,

Hope you are all enjoying the summer holidays and more importantly the rare patch of sunshine!!

To commemorate our blog surpassing 1000 views I thought you may wish to see a breakdown of our audience...

Please post up any projects you are working on over the summer - I would really like to hear about them!

Mr O'Callaghan

New deadline for 'game' competition!!

New deadline: Monday 16th July!!!

£10 voucher will be awarded to the winning entry on Monday!

Daily picks 11/07/12

Check out this programming site - PROGRAMr

It allows you to run and compile programs in various different languages.

For those of you new to programming, Python is a good place to start!

Computing Club this week will be on Tuesday after school!!

Hello chaps,

Computing Club will be on Tuesday after school this week as Friday is an inset day.

You will have time to work on your games (see previous post for rules / deadlines). Prize will be a £10 amazon voucher!!!

Please spread the word and make sure all members know that it's Tuesday this week!!

Thanks

Daily Picks: 28/06/2012

TERM 6 CHALLENGE!!!!

Challenge: To build a multi-stage platform game using Stencyl (now installed in SC1!).

I know Jake has already been using this so he's the man to beat!

Prizes will be awarded last week of term!

Rules:

1. You cannot submit another persons work as your own (you will need to explain and show evidence of how you created the game).
2. You can use Stencyl, Scratch or any other games development software.
3. The game must have multiple levels.

Deadline: Friday 13th July.


Getting started with Stencyl? Click Here!!

Daily Picks: 20/06/2012

This looks like fun...!!

CODE HERO

A game that allows you to shoot bits of  'Javascript' from a gun in order to create your own game.

Daily Picks: 19/06/2012

Note to self: dont leave computing club alone with an open computer!!

Computing club dismantling a CD Drive.

Seen better days...

Daily Picks: 17/06/12

A day early, but hey Ive found a great video!!

Apple launched the beta version of iOS 6 last week and they also have a new Mac Book Pro coming out too!

If you want to learn a bit more about the inner workings of a computer then watch the video at the link below...

http://www.apple.com/uk/macbook-pro/#macbookpro

The video shows Apple's innovative design team at their best!!

Daily Picks: 15/06/2012

Whilst trawling through the web this week looking for computing tools I came across a new on-line tool by Google... It's called 'Google Blockly' (I keep wanting to call it Google Broccoli but have to remind myself it's 'Blockly'!!).

It is a drag and drop programming tool similar to Scratch but this allows users to translate their blocks as JavaScript and other languages. So for example you can create a simple program by dragging and dropping different colour blocks and then click a link to see what the program would look like in JavaScript.

Have a look a Google Blockly here...

Daily Picks: 12/06/12 - iOS6!

Boom!

Daily Picks 10/06/2012!!

Hope everyone has had a good half term!!

I spent the weekend running 32 miles around Dartmoor in the rain... But it was fun!

Todays pick is a tool for programming Javascript and its called WaterBear. Its very similar to Scratch but programs specifically in Javascript. WaterBear has drag and drop functionality much like Scratch, but it also allows you to see and edit the Javascript generated by the blocks.

If you have worked your way through Code Academy or Code Avengers, this is a good 'next step'!

Good luck!!

Daily Picks2: 06/06/2012 - Today the Internet gets a lot bigger!!!!

A very interesting expansion of the Internet is happening today... IPv6.



Read more here.

Daily Picks: Raspberry Pi?! 06/06/2012

Here's an interesting video about the Raspberry Pi (a very affordable computer!!)...



I believe this is great for young people, especially in today's economic climate! However if you already have access to a PC to program, would you want a Raspberry Pi as well?

Post your comments guys!!

More Daily Picks!! 05/06/2012

Batch game programming seems to be quite popular at the moment. Here's a link to another tutorial on how to create a trivia game...

Click here!

Daily Picks: 01/06/2012

We've come to the end of the first term of computing club and in a very short space of time I've seen some excellent work!!

Here's a couple of visual programming sites for you to check out...

1) Google io - to access this site you must be signed into a Gmail account.

2) Lightbot - great way to learning about sub-routines. This is also available on the App Store, it's called 'RoboLogic.'

Have a great half term - good luck with the J-queries!!!

Mr O'Callaghan