In this lesson we get familiar with basic linux commands such as We used a helpful little game called GameShell, which teaches the player about these commands through a story with quests. You need a unix-based system on your computer to be able to install and play this game, so Windows users will not be … Read more
We’re into our second week of website building; as promised, I’ve uploaded the html & css files here. They have been combined into one ZIP file. Your computer should be able to extract them automatically but you might need to drag them to your ‘Documents’ folder to make sure they’re in the right place. You … Read more
For the last couple of weeks we’ve been looking at some older resources – programs that were originally written in good old Scratch 1.4 (seems like a LONG time ago!). These would actually work, as written, in Scratch 3, but given that our current group of coders has actually completed their ‘beginner’ phase, I thought … Read more
SO, today we finished our ‘Space-Cat’ game, with added extras from some great input from our beginners group. As of today, though, they’re not ‘beginners’ anymore! We’ve reached the stage with this group where we encourage them to try to come up with their own ideas, and set challenges for themselves which we will try … Read more
So today we took on the near-infamous ‘Astro-Cat’. This one ALWAYS give us problems, usually to do with the custom sprites. So we used our online Scratch Studio to upload a version that has the sprites and the background, without the Scratch Blocks. Brian forgot to remove the blocks from the background, though, so the … Read more
At time of writing (7th April 2020), this website is brand new. The World is in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our CoderDojo in Mullingar hasn’t hosted a session for several weeks. Schools are closed for at least another 2 weeks – right about now is usually when they’d be closed anyway for … Read more