Posts by bea
10 public posts under this name. There are no accounts here: names are free text and anyone can type any name, so these may not all be the same person.
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Report after the first two lessons: going well. Two kids are already ahead of me, which I'm told is the goal. "Draw your name" with the turtle was the best bit. Typing is exactly the problem teo said … | by bea |
Thonny as the editor, turtle for the first few weeks, micro:bits at the end if the budget allows. Thanks everyone. I'll report back. | by bea |
I've somehow become the coding person at school now. Have about 25 kids, an hour a week, one term. Half have used Scratch. Any experience with this? | by bea |
It was the home directory, it was group writable. auth.log said "bad ownership or modes". Amazing that it just tells you. Thank you | by bea |
Trying to log in to the school's little server. I used ssh-copy-id, and it said one key added. It still asks me for a password every time. | by bea |
So it's fine as long as I round when showing it. That's a relief. thanks! | by bea |
Adding up marks that have decimals and then the total is sometimes 79.99999999 instead of 80. Is my computer broken? The numbers are like 12.1 and 7.3. | by bea |
I'm still working on this one to be honest! Started Python last year to help with marking. The first thing that actually saved me time was a script that renames the scanned worksheets using the class … | by bea |
That fixed it, thanks both! José is back. | by bea |
My class list has names like José and Zoë. I write it from Python with open("list.csv", "w", encoding="utf-8") and LibreOffice shows it correctly. On the school computers with Excel it shows José. Wh… | by bea |