Exeter Pi jam

The next Exeter Pi jam, takes place on Saturday, 3rd May, Rougemont room, Exeter Library.

Start 10am

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#Event,#Exeter,#RaspberryPiJam,#RaspberryPi,#Coding. #Programming,#Hacking,#Making

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The Young Coders competition

The Young Coders competition

This year's theme is “Budgeting Better”

Links

• Young Coders Competition
• Scratch
• STEM Ambassadors

Tags

#YoungCodersCompetition,#Coding,#Programming,#Scratch,#BudgetingBetter

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Free E-books and e-learning

As I am on the mailing list for Free Code Camp [1]. I was recently emailed with an offer to obtain some Free programming E-books on a range of programming / coding languages, detailed below.

• The Python Handbook. 115 pages. Spring 2021. PDF, ePub, Mobi
• The Linux Commands Handbook. 135 pages. Fall 2020. PDF, ePub, Mobi
• The Deno Beginner’s Handbook. 46 pages. Spring 2020. PDF, ePub, Mobi
• The JavaScript Beginner’s Handbook. 76 pages. Early 2020. PDF, ePub, Mobi
• The C Beginner’s Handbook. 77 pages. Early 2020. PDF, ePub, Mobi
• The Next.js Handbook. 102 pages. Fall 2019. PDF, ePub, Mobi
• The Svelte Handbook. 41 pages. Fall 2019. PDF, ePub, Mobi
• The HTML Handbook 87 pages. Summer 2019. PDF, ePub, Mobi
• The CSS Handbook 173 pages. Spring 2019. PDF, ePub, Mobi
• JavaScript from ES5 to ESNext. 75 pages. Early 2019. PDF, ePub, Mobi
• The React Beginner’s Handbook. 40 pages. Fall 2020. PDF, ePub, Mobi
• The Node.js Handbook. 189 pages. Fall 2018. PDF, ePub, Mobi
• The Express.js Handbook. 61 pages. Fall 2018. PDF, ePub, Mobi
• The Vue.js 2 Handbook 122 pages. Summer 2018. PDF, ePub, Mobi

Links

• Freecodecamp

Tags

#Coding,#FreeCodeCamp,#Ebooks,#Python,#Linux,#Deno, #JavaScript,#JS,#C,#NextJS,#Svelte,#HTMl,#CSS,#React,#NodeJS,#ExpressJS,#VueJS

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Geany Build for Python3

By default, Geany will run programs in Python 2.x. As this is now obsolete, you need to edit the build commands so it points to python3.

This will allow you to run (execute) your code.

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#Coding,#Python,#Python3,BuildCommand

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Code Club 20/1/2024 Write up

We seem to be heading off at a tangent with code club, however today we carried on with building a robot car, and another group were starting work on a 12 in 1 robot kit.

Elsewhere, we installed Ubuntu on a netbook and had a look at the Sony Laptop, which now dual boots with Ubuntu and has all the various hardware drivers working.

We do however want to get back to coding at Code Club and ensure STEM group is reserved for some of the project work.

Next code club is on 3rd Feb 2024

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#Code,#Coding,#CodeClub,#STEM,#Electronics

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Code Club 20/1/2024

Usual code club on Saturday 10 – 12 at Paignton Library, we will be in the learning centre for the usual coding activities and in room 10 to carry on with the projects we are doing at the STEM group (see previous post).

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#Code,#Coding,#CodeClub,#STEM,#Electronics

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Code Club 18/11/2023 Ventoy

As Paignton Library code club is more advanced than normal code clubs, I undertook some research in to how to create multiboot USB sticks.

Problem

The average ISO file for a Linux ( or similar ) distribution is usually < 4gb, as we have USB sticks larger than 8, in fact I have a few 16 and the library just sent for some 32gb sticks, having 1 ISO per stick is rather wasteful.

Research and solution

My research led me to a tool called Ventoy this is a small, open source program that, when run, creates file system on the target USB stick to facilitate booting more than one installer.

Notes and warning

The target USB stick will however be Formatted and all data wiped as the program is windows, I used an old netbook with windows still installed to do this.

Current status

ISO files can be added / removed as required. So far I have a 16gb usb stick with :-

Debian 12 Linux mint 21.2 xfce RescaTux.

With space for more. This has also feed up some of my USB sticks.

This should be good going forward, so hopefully we can have one or two installer disks, and free up the other USB sticks for data.

The following image is from the Ventoy Boot Menu.

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#Coding,#Ventoy,#Linux,#MultiBoot

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Repl.it desktop app error

I have downloaded the Repl.it app for GNU/Linux Amd64.
1. Switched to a root shell with su - 2. Navigated to where the .deb file was downloaded to 3. Entered the following

dpkg -i ./replit_1.0.0_amd64.deb

1. And got the following output dpkg-deb: error: archive './replit_1.0.0_amd64.deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up dpkg: error processing archive ./replit_1.0.0_amd64.deb (--install): dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: ./replit_1.0.0_amd64.deb

Issue seems to be the compression is using tar.zst, I have no idea what this is either, normally it is .tar.gz

Sharing here in case anyone else has a problem.

• Repl.it

Update

Asked on the Replit forum and it seems it may have something to do with my Debian version, see post here

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#Coding,#Development,#programming,#Cloud,#Virtual,#replit

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