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 surprised there was no easy way of counting the words in each cell. I knew you could count characters using LEN() but not how to count the words…. till I found this post and this useful snippet:
=LEN(TRIM(text)) - LEN(SUBSTITUTE(text, " ", "")) + 1I’ve been a bit obsessed recently with figuring out how to create those red/cyan shadows of picture (like the Tik Tok logo)
I finally got around to plugging some basic electronics into the GPIO pins on the back of the Raspberry Pi 400 i got
This is what I gave my Year 12s as a starter to work on creating the movement for their Aliens
So this summer I’ve been coding in Python.
I’v decided to push this in my A Level classes more than learning VB.net, Javascript & PHP. Not because I don’t enjoy doing these languages, but that some students would struggle with switching between these. Perhaps code agnostism only comes with a maturity of having to learn different programming languages over the years?