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2020 Six Nations Rugby Results 8/9th Feb 2020
This weekend is the second weekend of the 2020 six nations Rugby
Sat 8th Feb
Ireland 34-14 Wales Scotland 16:45 England
Sunday 9th Feb
France FT 35-22 (HT 23-10) Italy
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South Devon Tech Jam Feb 2020 write up
Today we had about 6-8 attendees over the session. We were mostly engaged with FreeCodeCamp. Most of the younger attendees started or are working their way through the HTML section of the Responsive Web Design Course.
Lucy and myself are also undertaking this too, so that we can try and provide help / support as needed.
Paul Bennett was busy diagnosing and fixing a BBC Micro that Lucy brought in to be looked at. Lucy and Paul also set up a STEM hub account for the jam so we can hopefully get some STEM ambassadors in to help.
It was also good to catch up with Stuart, who I know from previous employment, he is interested in learning Python so I set him up with a Pi and one of the python books I have access too.
In all, a very productive day. Next week (15th Feb) is Code Club so the attendees who come to code club will be carrying on with free code camp at their own pace.
We are now starting to develop some focus for the event and achieve some good learning outcomes. Hopefully in March we can also set up a retro area with RetroPie and other retro hardware that we have access to.
The next Jam will be on 14th March 2020.
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2020 Six Nations Rugby Fixtures 8/9th Feb 2020
This weekend is the second weekend of the 2020 six nations Rugby
Sat 8th Feb
Ireland 14:15 Wales Scotland 16:45 England
Sunday 9th Feb
France 15:00 Italy
#rugby, #sixnations, #sport, #fixtures, #results
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I found a link to this on Friendica social network. This looks at features which will be in the upcoming release of Linuxmint 20.
The link to the Tec Robust article can be found here worth a read if you are using Mint.
Looks like there will be updates to some of the default Apps, as well as Mint 20 being shipped with Cinnamon 4.4. It also looks like there is a new LXDE 4 which is the Debiab edition.
#Linux, #Mint, #20, #Release, #features, #tecrobust, #preview
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ZX SPECTRUM GAMES IN THE BROWSER
The ZX Spectrum was a computer released by Sinclair Research back in 1982. It was built around the Zilog Z80 8 bit CPU.
Along with the Commodore 64, The ZX Spectrum was a very popular computer back in the 80's and early 90's and there were many classic games made during this period. Some modern games can trace their roots back to the 80's. Thanks to projects such as RetroPie, retro games can be played on modern hardware.
You can now play classic games such as Jet Set Willy in emulators, for operating systems such as Linux, MacOS and Windows. You can also play games, in a web browser, which is great for going back to your childhood memories of 8 bit gaming without having to set up an emulator.
One such site is http://www.onsite-computers.co.uk, which offers over 200 classic games. Some games have been written as recently as the 2000's so the developer community is still out there.
You can have a go here
This is the main spectrum screen, from here you could for example load games and type in Sinclair Basic programs, also called Speccy BASIC.
Manic Miner in a browser
Pippo (Puzzle game)
We have Retro Pie set up at the South Devon Tech Jam for anyone who wants to have a go.
#zxspectrum, #retro, #games, #browser, #emulation, #SouthDevonTechJam
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South Devon Tech Jam update – Feb 2020
At the Tech Jam on Saturday we will hopefully be discussing learning platforms. To help facilitate this, Lucy has found a video that explains the difference between Freecodecamp and Codecademy and asks which is better. The conclusion is interesting but the video does raise a few good points.
I also found a video that goes through some of the basics of repl.it
We would like to play these videos and then have a discussion.
We perhaps also discuss the Developer Roadmap as this links in to the above discussion. Free Code Camp is being used by some of the attendees at Code Club.
Hopefully the Tech Jam will complement the Free Code Camp learning by covering issues such as User Experience.
The Tech Jam has other things going on such as RetroPie and takes place in rooms 10/11 & 12 at the library.
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SUPERBOWL RESULT
This years Superbowl took place on Sunday 2nd February 2020.
Kansas city chiefs 31 – 20 San Francisco 49ers.
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2020 Six Nations Rugby Results
This weekend sees the start of the 2020 six nations Rugby
Sat 1st Feb
Wales 42-0 (FT) (HT 21-0) Italy 14:15 Ireland 19-12 (FT) (10-6 HT) Scotland 16:45
Sunday 2nd Feb
France 24-17 (FT) (0-17 HT) England 15:00
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SUPERBOWL
This years Superbowl takes place on Sunday 2nd February 2020.
Kansas city chiefs vs San Francisco 49ers.
#football, #nfl, #fixtures, #results, #update, #postseason, #superbowl,
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Code Club 1st Feb 2020 Write up
We had a busy code club today, 9 young people and 1 parent. More work on FreeCodeCamp and scratch, which is great.
We now have 3 young people signed up (or going to sign up) with FreeCodeCamp so potentially they can make some real progress, and gain some very valuable employability skills at the same time. By using websites such as Repl.it, to put these new skills in to practice it allows different forms of learning to take place but this should enhance learning too.
We have about 3 children working on scratch either their own projects or from the CodeClub resources.
Next week 8th Feb is the South Devon tech jam then Code Club is back on the 15th Feb.
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