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#CoderDojo revisited … with an unexpected epilog

We moved house six years ago and it is only lately that some pictures are coming out of storage and getting hung. No surprise that some of them had gone askew - and seeing the tilt in this one (an Annie West print commisioned to celebrate the 2013 DojoCon in Sligo), made me think. Is it a metophor for the trajectory Coderdojo in the ten years since then?

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magsamondposts · CoderDojo revisited … with an unexpected epilogWe moved house six years ago and it is only lately that some pictures are coming out of storage and getting hung. No surprise that some of them had gone askew – and seeing the tilt in this on…

I'm volunteering at CoderDojo today, and a kid asked me if there's a Python library for everything.

I said, "Yep! I bet there's even a Python library for doing your taxes."

The kid pulled up a search, and this link was the first result. What a time to be alive!

github.com/mmacpherson/tenfort

GitHubGitHub - mmacpherson/tenforty: Python library to compute US federal taxes, and state taxes for some states.Python library to compute US federal taxes, and state taxes for some states. - mmacpherson/tenforty
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@tinker @fxbghackers I do this yearly at the season’s end of my local #CoderDojo group. Fun guaranteed and amazed every time how little kids these days know which screwdriver fits in which hole.. It’s like they never had that baby toy with different shaped holes to fit bricks in.. Luckily we’re there to help out and educate what each part they take out is.

Nachdem wir beim #Unwetter am Donnerstag mal wieder mehrere Hundert Liter Wasser im Büro hatten und die Nacht mit Schaufeln verbracht haben, ist inzwischen alles wieder gereinigt und getrocknet und das Wetter tut so, als wäre nichts gewesen. Glücklicherweise sind keine ernsten Schäden entstanden — von @jkphl's abartigem Muskelkater abgesehen — und dem heutigen 65. #CoderDojo steht nichts im Wege. Das Tor steht offen, lasset die Kids zum Programmieren kommen! 🌞

Fun day at #coderdojo #CapeTown today, I felt like a useful mentor 🤓

Helped:
limiting lifespans on clones to avoid infinite spiders in a #scratch web game,
nesting an if to get scrolling working in a side scroller,
finding GPIO pins and pinouts to get potentiometer input in thonny from pico,
debugging syncing code on two #microbit s to get radio comms for the microchat project,
swapping out a dodgy USB cable that was frustrating micro programmer,
resolved a bug from duplicate def in #python.