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Getting basic LED electronics to work with raspberry pi 400

geekcandy·15 November 2021

I finally got around to plugging some basic electronics into the GPIO pins on the back of the Raspberry Pi 400 i got

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Space Invaders with Pygame

geekcandy·8 November 2021

This is what I gave my Year 12s as a starter to work on creating the movement for their Aliens

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Pushing ahead with Python

geekcandy·12 August 2021

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…

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3D Game Programming for Kids – examples from book

geekcandy·7 March 2021

I am currently teaching Javascript to Year 9s as we are in remote learning mode and it has worked well as it is a web based language which students can easily do…

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My First Podcast: Bitesize Revision for GCSE Computer Science

geekcandy·1 March 2021

I’ve created a podcast for GCSE Computer Science students to revise topics in small “bite size” chunks. I’m slowly releasing new episodes, but I’ve committed to doing an episode a week, as…

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Visualise line by line code execution in Python

geekcandy·10 August 2020

I stumbled across this website that allows you to visualise line by line execution ina Python program. This may be useful for students who are unclear about how a function (or blocks…

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Quick Tip – Splitting Names in Excel (Formula)

geekcandy·29 June 2020

Splitting names in Excel: =LEFT(B1,FIND(” “,B1,1)-1) =RIGHT(B1,LEN(B1)-FIND(” “,B1,1))

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