Making Better Use of the Redundant Stadia Controller on Windows
Now that Google have ceased the Stadia service and enabled the Stadia controllers to be switched to bluetooth mode, I started using mine on the PC but there’s a problem.
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Resources regarding computer science and education within the field.
Scratch Cheat Sheet
Various resources/links related to Scratch
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Collatz Conjecture in Scratch
It’s not the first time I have extolled the virtues of Scratch. It is a fantastic platform by which people can be introduced into programming. I fancied doing something creative this evening and playing about in Scratch. I was going to make a little game but then I thought about illustrating an aspect of the Collatz conjecture in Scratch.
Read moreRe-associate Windows Picture Viewer with image files
Quite often Windows (even prev. versions) would lose the default application association to open image files (e.g. JPG) with Windows Picture Viewer. When I right-click and go to open with…, the application isn’t shown. The only fix I know is to edit the registry.
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Housing Hedgehogs
Hedgehogs are adorable little creatures. I acknowledge that all of God’s creation deserves awe and respect and that it’s important to appreciate that every species has a valid role to play in our ecosystem. But hedgehogs, well, they’re lovely aren’t they? Sadly they’re endangered in the UK so I set about to help out some of these prickly little friends.
Read moreDeleting the Windows 10 Pagefile
I’ve been running out of space on my boot drive, a 250 GB SSD, but I’m reluctant to upgrade it with another SSD because I am overhauling my system shortly and will go NVMe rather than SATA. However, it does mean I have to keep on top of things so I don’t get the dreaded error about scratch disks being full in Photoshop. One of those things is the enormous pagefile.sys that Windows keeps generating.
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Sheepdog Trials
I have been interested in chaos for a long time. I like swarms – they are chaotic. Each individual in a swarm has a very simple set of rules to follow but overall, the swarm seems to move in a coordinated fashion. As such, I wanted to provide a simple and visual explanation of swarm behaviour that was accessible for people to interact with – MIT’s Scratch seemed the ideal platform then.
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Out of this World
The European Space Agency confirmed confirmed successful code execution on board the ISS – code produced by four young girls in a Code Club I run.
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Pandemic Simulator (Scratch)
A colleague emailed me a link to a Scratch project where somebody had done a pandemic simulator so I thought I would have a try. I liked the idea but I wanted to have a go but coding from ‘scratch’ (no pun intended).
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Message into Space
I run an after-school code club, which is attended by pupils from a few different year groups. I am impressed by what a team of four girls have achieved (aged 11-13). They’ve written code in Python that will run on a Raspberry Pi in the International Space Station (ISS) next year.
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