Following on from the post I made a while back about writing resources, I thought a post about things to consider when running a workshop for beginner coders might be handy too. This post is primarily aimed at those lovely people who have no training in education but who give up their time to teachContinue reading “Do you want to run a workshop?”
Category Archives: Teaching
One pseudocode to rule them all?
Well met, generous reader. It’s been a while. As you can probably tell from the total lack of posts, I don’t have much free time. I now work four days a week, and then I work even harder the other three days, looking after my son. My free time is largely spent sleeping to survive,Continue reading “One pseudocode to rule them all?”
Bonjour, tout le monde!
Did I ever tell you about the time I taught Year 7 French? The Head called me into his office one summer and basically said that they didn’t have enough to fill my timetable and could I please teach a class of Year 7 French as there was no one else to do it. HeContinue reading “Bonjour, tout le monde!”
gui zero – making Python GUIs really simple
The code in this post has been updated to reflect the changes in guizero version 0.4. When I was a teacher, I found it frustrating that it was not at all easy for students to create GUIs using Python. I used tkinter a little bit with my GCSE class and they instantly loved creating GUIs,Continue reading “gui zero – making Python GUIs really simple”
Cat Cat Code Ltd
So here it is! I’m taking the plunge as of September and starting my own business – Cat Cat Code Ltd. I’ve put up a blog post with some tips on teaching HTML and CSS on the site so please do pop over and have a look. If you know of someone who could benefitContinue reading “Cat Cat Code Ltd”
Computing – the cake is a lie
I’m nearly at the end of my first time round teaching GCSE Computing and something has been bothering me. I decided to leave the topic of networking until the end, because I think it’s one of the hardest and also because I thought it would be beneficial to do it in Year 11 when myContinue reading “Computing – the cake is a lie”
How do you actually teach programming?
This is a question which has been bugging me for some time now – how do you actually teach someone to program? I don’t mean which language, or what resources should I use, or what time of the day is optimal. I mean what is it in your teaching which switches on the little lightbulbContinue reading “How do you actually teach programming?”
Computing – A beautiful dream
I didn’t believe the hype on the news about bad teachers. I mean, nobody I worked with was rubbish at their job so I put it down to teacher bashing media nonsense and got on with my life. I was happy to share my resources here and on CAS and to help people who asked for my help,Continue reading “Computing – A beautiful dream”
Javascript Binary to Denary
I wrote this but I am not sure I can use it for the purpose I wanted. Feel free to use if it’s useful to you! <html> <head> <style> input[type=’text’] { font-size: 24px; } </style> <script type=”text/javascript”> // A quick and dirty binary to denary converter in Javascript // I wrote it to use withContinue reading “Javascript Binary to Denary”
Being a 21st Century Teacher
So I’m applying for the Picademy – two days of visiting Raspberry Pi towers, meeting cool people and fiddling around with a tiny computer – sounds good to me! One of the requirements for the application is to write a blog post about “Being a 21st Century Teacher”…which is actually quite a tricky topic to writeContinue reading “Being a 21st Century Teacher”
Code? Boom. 