Catching Ghosts, more Roblox and getting in the spirit
This Saturday at 4:00pm we’ll be running one of our favourite Scratch classes: Ghostbusters! It starts introducing our young students to the concept of game mechanics (which some of them already...
View ArticleGet your computer chatting .. and let’s make some stuff!
Last week the Scratch team built a great Ghostbusters projects and we have more of the same this week. Our Scratch session this Saturday will be dedicated to building a Chatbot. This introduces our...
View ArticleTalk Tech on Third Thursday – December 2017
As another year comes to a close, we have our last Third Thursday of the year coming up this week. As usual, I’ve booked a table for us at Bar George so we can meet up, talk about the latest tech news...
View ArticleScratching out a Paint Box and lots more
This Saturday the Scratch class will be building a Paint Box. It’s the next in our series and introduces the concept of cross-object communication. Each of our Scratch lessons builds on the previous...
View ArticleBoat Race and getting ready for 2018
We’re getting ready for our last Scratch session of the year, a project called Boat Race. In this session we start using Scratch to introduce game mechanics, creating a race against a clock complete...
View ArticleWelcome to 2018 – Starting with a Memory Game
Welcome to 2018, a New Year and one in which we’d love to get everyone coding! We’re starting this year with the continuation of our Scratch class, which is now half-way through the sessions we have...
View ArticleWordPress – A Short History
Last week, we had our monthly meeting of the WordPress User Group, kindly hosted by Microgaming. It’s a great space and we’re grateful that they opened their doors to us. Hopefully we’ll have some of...
View ArticleFlappy Parrot and more Roblox
This Saturday at 4:00pm the Scratch group will be working on an old favourite: Flappy Parrot! It’s a take on the famous Flappy Bird game, but using Scratch. The project uses collision detection,...
View ArticleDodgeball, Roblox and Cybersecurity
This Saturday, we’ll be running our Scratch class as usual at 16:00. This week we’ll be following a project called Dodgeball, which involves creating a platform-based game, complete with obstacles and...
View ArticleTalk Tech on Third Thursday – January 2018
Welcome to the 2018! This is the first Third Thursday of the year, and time to get together with your techy friends to talk about the latest developments in technology, what’s new on the scene and what...
View ArticleCatch the Dots, Roblox, Alexa Skills and much more
This Saturday, we’re running a Scratch project at 4:00pm called Catch the Dots. We’ve done this a number of times before and it’s always great to see the class put together a game that they and their...
View ArticleClone Wars, Roblox, WordPress, Alexa and much more
This Saturday at 16:00 we’ll be running our penultimate Scratch session of this term, a session called Clone Wars where the class will be creating a shoot-em-up using all the things they have learnt in...
View ArticleSpace Junk, lots of Tech and a brand new Javascript class
This Saturday we’ll holding our final Scratch class of this season at 4:00pm, one called Space Junk, which I believe might be the first time we’re doing this project. It’s a good one to end the course...
View ArticleNew Javascript class and Twine for Girls
This Saturday we’re starting a brand new class: Beginning Javascript at our usual starting time of 16:00. It’s a new class which we’re running for the first time as we’re looking forward to seeing how...
View ArticleMore Javascript and Twine
This Saturday at 4:00pm we’ll be continuing with the Javascript we started last week. We had a great introduction about what the language can do and what a Javascript program looked like and this week...
View ArticleMore Javascript, Twine and Robotics
This Saturday we’ll be continuing our Javascript class at 4:00pm. We took a deep dive into variables last week, covering string, numeric and boolean variables and learning all sorts of things we could...
View ArticleLearning Javascript, Twine and Roblox
This Saturday we’ll be continuing our Javascript course at 4:00pm by delving into Objects. We had a great session on arrays last week, learning all about how to use, insert, delete, split and do all...
View ArticleThird Thursday – March 2018
Wow, Third Thursday does come around quickly sometimes, quicker on some months than others! Well, it’s arrived again and time for our Talk Tech on Third Thursday Lunch. We’re currently meeting at Bar...
View ArticleCode, Robotics and much more
This Saturday we’ll be continuing with our Javascript class at 4:00pm, introducing program structures like loops and conditions. We’ve had a really deep dive into variables, objects and data types so...
View ArticleNo classes over Easter Weekend
We just finished our Javascript for Beginners classes last weekend, so will be pausing our lessons over the Easter weekend, particularly as a number of people are away for the long weekend. We’ll be...
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