Bright Stars
After yesterday's rant, I took some time today to step back and take stock on what I've got. It's pretty awesome.
Posts about children
A Minecraft Coding environment
A summary of the steps to install Minecraft with Forge, the two Forge mods "Raspberry Jam Mod" and "PythonTool Mod" and configure the coding environment to my preferred arrangement. I am using this on my own computers (work's Mac, and my openSUSE PCs) as well as my son's Windows 10 PC.
getkidscoding
I've been coming to my sons class when I get a chance and showing the kids about computer codes. I actually started a CodeClub last year and we were pretty successful, though very limited by my availability -- I was able to run the club for one hour most weeks, so it took us two terms to cover Scratch 1.
This year I've had even less time away from work, but I've had great support from the grade 6 teacher. We plan for him to facilitate the projects in class while I assist via emails and blogs. So: here's my first post.
Help with Accelerologger
One of the Huon kids over at Bob's Drone Blog has a really cool Scientific Investigation Awards project - an Accelerometer data logger, or "Accelerologger" (I like the name too!). He's stuck with a small coding bug and has asked for help. I think I see the problem. Wisely, Bob's disabled comments without a login (see my Computing Rule 5), so I'm adding notes here on my own blog.