Paul Sutton

Ensuring a Smooth Transition in the Year of Covid

Matt Bromley starts this course by summarising the key principles for a smooth transition from primary school to secondary school in usual times, before going on to explore how we can adapt the process to enable students to transition well during the context of Covid. 

REFERENCES

• Creative Education
• Course Page

TAGS

#CreativeEducation,#Support,#Children,#Transition, #Primary,#Secondary,#Academic,#Pastoral

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More learning resources

Free code camp offer more than just courses, you have access to lots of other useful sources of learning too

• NGINX Handbook
• Docker Handboook

You can work on this independently or perhaps join the study support group and learn with others.

The next South Devon Tech Jam is 8th may so an ideal platform to discuss further. The next Devon and Cornwall Linux user group meeting is on Saturday 15th May on Jitsi.

REFERENCES

• Free Code Camp
• Study Support group
• Free e-books

TAGS

#StudySupport,#SouthDevonTechJam,#NGINX,#Docker

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Nethack vultures-eye 1

Nethack is a very popular game amongst some techy groups. Normal Nethack is a text based game. However vultures-eye, adds some basic 3d isometric graphics to the game, making it more accessible to people.

As you explore, you come across, monsters and other residents in the dungeon, some are friendly others not so, you need to discover all this as you explore the many rooms, corridors in the game.

Depending on your character type you get a companion with you. Here the player is a knight accompanied by a horse.

I have the game working on FreeBSD, so these notes / screenshots are copied over from my FreeBSD install.

Gold (zorkomids) are the main currency, you need this to buy new goods, and receive this if you sell something.

Shops are a place to buy or sell goods.

You can see your full inventory, detailing what you are carrying, wearing or how much currency you have.

While the game maps help you keep track of where you are.

When you die, you can view all the stats on how you performed during the game.

One of the many stairways down to the next level of the dungeon, you can go up and down these as you wish. The upper most level (1) has a stairway to the outside world, choose this, your game ends. Onwards and downwards, it has to be.

CONFIGURATION

Under FreeBSD the main configuration file can be found at ./vulture/vulture.conf

However other options can be found in /usr/local/lib/vulture-nethackdir/config

vulture.conf.

So taking a look at the local configuration file, you can set up screensize, sound, sound effects etc. This is pretty much self explanatory.

screen_xsize=800
screen_ysize=600
fullscreen=0
play_music=1
play_effects=1
wall_style=full
wall_opacity=0.8
recenter_after_movement=1
show_helpbar=1
show_actionbar=1
show_minimap=1
use_standard_inventory=0
use_standard_objmenus=0
messagelines=5
no_key_translation=0
highlight_cursor_square=1
debug=0
macro1=n100.
macro2=n20s

Resources

• Nethack Website

• Nethack Wiki

• irc – #nethack on freenode

• usenet – rec.games.roguelike.nethack

#games, #rogue, #roguelike, #nethack, #vultureseye, #unix,#freebsd, #dungeon, #crawler, #VultureNethack

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Debconf 2021

The 2021 Debian Developer conference will be:

**Start : ** August 22 – 2021 **End : ** August 29 – 2021

With a Debcamp preceding this:

**Start : ** August 15, 2021 **End : ** August 21, 2021

As with last year, the conference is virtual, however we still need help with the event, if you're interested please get in touch. Please see website [1] for details and join the mailing list [2] for further discussion.

There is an irc meeting at 18:00 UTC every two weeks, this is on IRC, In the United Kingdom this is UTC+1.

Next planning meeting is : Monday 10th May 2021 on #debconf-team irc, we are on the oftc [3] network.

Full details on how to get involved are on the website [1a] contact page.

LINKS

1 Debconf 2021 Website 1a Contact info 2 Mailing list sign up 3 OFTC IRC 4 Poster (work in progress 5 Salsa Gitlab

TAGS

#Debian,#Conference,#Developer

CONTACT

The Mailing list sign up page has a sign up form, however you can just send a message to the e-mail address given to request more information, you need to ask for replies to be cc'd to you.

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Kick it out

Kick It Out, The FA, Premier League, EFL, FA Women’s Super League, FA Women’s Championship, PFA, LMA, PGMOL and the FSA will unite for a social media boycott from 15.00 on Friday 30 April to 23.59 on Monday 3 May 2021.

• Kickitout

#KickItOutGeneration,#KickItOut,#SocialMedia,#Boycott

Other sports such as RugbyUnion, Tennis have joined this Boycott.

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