Inspiration List
See this list for ideas of things to do, build and learn about. Any of these can provide a base for further work given a bit of creativity. Come to the club to ask any questions.
Have a look around all the things we've got going on at the schools GitHub list.
| Description | Progression |
|---|---|
| Draw with code interactive artwork and games | Live Example |
| Robot Wars countdown timer | Started in Sketch, #4 |
| Temperature sensor and alarm for DT Laser cutter cooling system | |
| Pulsing LED with cycle linked to a potentiometer | |
| Robot Wars score indicator for the buckets | |
| Robot Wars team colours on the robots, RGB LEDs | |
| Robot Wars frame lighting and party poppers | |
| RaceClicks multiplayer realtime game example | Version 1 almost ready |
| Website Starter to learn how to make your own for anything! | Version 1 |
| Simple peer-2-peer chat example program | Starter Example |
| Vote your approve or disaproval to the teacher in your lesson | Version 1 |
| Binary Counter display for teaching computer logic | Version 2 |
| Minecraft Projects for the Pi Edition | Many Examples |
| Quiz wall display to pull up questions and take answers physical user buttons | Started |
| Template to pass realtime messages betwen an arduino to a web page | Example |
| Hardware Club Introduction Projects | 3 Projects |
| JSRobot that you program trhough levels and even make new levels | Started |
Coding House Rules
These rules are adapted from the BBC Micor:bit rules and are in general good rules for everywhere.
- Don't use your full name or social media handle in your Usernames.
- Don't reveal any personal information about yourself or others in your script, comments or feedback, such as your full name, phone numbers or email addresses, as it might put you or someone else at risk.
- No nasty, offensive or rude comments. Sharing your opinion is fine as long as it is said politely and fairly, but being mean, bullying and/or causing arguments is not allowed.
- No swear words or other content that is likely to offend or cause distress, including racist, sexist, homophobic, disablist or sexually explicit content.
- No links to inappropriate or offensive content.
- No unsuitable films, bands or TV shows. Children aged 11 attend the school. This means you cannot refer to certificate 15 or 18 films and games, TV programmes shown after 9pm, or bands that use bad language.
- No foreign languages. Unfortunately we can't allow scripts or text written in a language that isn't English. Everything that is published on the site will be post-moderated and we can't accommodate any other languages.
- Don't impersonate someone else.
How to Git
Our code at birkdale is saved using software called git, git lets you look at the history of any line and read comments about why it changed. It's a perfect resource for learning from. On GitHub click on the history button when looking at any file to view what changes it has had. Clicking on those will show you the difference.