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Conditional Formatting – when cell contains text

geekcandy·29 August 2023

Its the start of a new year and I’m getting my class timetable from our school system. I like working with colour coding so I can see what years I’m teaching. I…

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Python Code to Know

geekcandy·26 March 2023

This is the copy of the Jupyter Notebook I was working on Google Co Lab to show the Year 10/11s for the basics of Python programming. But alas Google Colab is blocked…

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Mail Merge Word – using VBA to split a Word doc and name it

geekcandy·3 January 2023

It’s back to school time and as usual I’m extracting data from Socrative reports.Socrative.com is great when it comes to auto marking multiple choice content but if I have a few manually…

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How I finally got a Python Flask app installed on Cpanel

geekcandy·21 December 2022

In summary: 1. Check versions! Of Python, Flask and Jinja2. Read this really useful tutorial https://dev.to/lordghostx/how-to-host-flask-applications-on-namecheap-cpanel-299b (Thanks LordGhostX) Okay so I’ve been meaning to figure this out for a while. Flask is…

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Learning about AI with Google’s Teachable Machine

geekcandy·21 November 2022

https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/ I’m teaching a module on Artificial Intelligence to my Year 9 students, and they are really enjoying it. Today’s lesson was about “How do we get a machine to learn” and…

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Using Figma to design Python Tkinter GUIs

geekcandy·25 July 2022

There’s only so far you can get with Python before you realise the command line is pretty, well, boring. And you hanker for something graphical, with colours and buttons and different fonts.…

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Excel formula to count words in a cell

geekcandy·5 June 2022

It’s reports time again – specifically UCAS references time. And I need to write up to 140 words on each of my students. I like using Excel for such things but was…

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