TONIGHT: Makey Makey meets Codesters!
We will be making drum sets from Makey Makeys, in Python on Codesters.
Here is a rough example:
https://www.codesters.com/preview/346bfe77835a4fdca41faa40da5866fb/
Join us in the boardroom at 25N at 5:45pm!
December 7, 2018 – CANCELLED
Meeting CANCELLED! Please stay home, nice and warm and code! Or maybe go to the Geneva Christmas walk! See you December 14, 2018!
On December 7th, we will be meeting at the St Charles Library. Geneva will be hosting the Geneva Christmas Walk.
We will be re-writing the pong game that we build in the beginning of October with Scratch, in Python. We will be then seeing if we can also use a Makey Makey to play the pong game. 😉
Here is the scratch game: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/214256666/
November 30, 2018 Meeting
PYTHON — PYTHON — PYTHON — PYTHON
Tonight, we will try out making an electronic greeting card in python – check it out:
https://www.codesters.com/curriculum/hour-of-code-2018/Making+an+E-Card/1/
Also, if anyone has any questions on their python games, we can work on those as well!
See you @ 5:45pm at 25N in Geneva!
November 16, 2018 Meeting
We will meet in the board room at 25N, in Geneva, at 5:45pm on Friday November 9, 2018. Never been there? Here is a Map
Meeting Agenda: PYTHON!!!!
Check out a few of our python games:
Robin’s Python Game – Monster Fight
You can even play them on your PHONE!
November 9, 2018 Meeting
We will meet in the board room at 25N, in Geneva, at 5:45pm on Friday November 9, 2018. Never been there? Here is a Map
Meeting Agenda:
- Anyone new this week? If so, no problem!
- Let’s do some code challenges in Repl.it
- Let’s dig into even more Python!
November 2, 2018 Meeting
We will meet in the board room at 25N, in Geneva, at 5:45pm on Friday November 2, 2018. Never been there? Here is a Map
Meeting Agenda:
- Anyone new this week? If so, no problem!
- Let’s dig into more Python!
October 19, 2019 Meeting
We will meet in the board room at 25N, in Geneva, at 5:45pm on October 19, 2018.
Never been there? Here is a Map
Meeting Agenda:
- Welcome & Introductions
- Anyone new this week? If so, no problem!
- Anyone have something new to share?
- Made with Code https://www.madewithcode.com/
- Brief chat about different programming languages
- Intro to Python (still deciding between)
October 12, 2018 Meeting – Welcome!
We will meet in the board room at 25N, in Geneva, at 5:45 on October 12, 2018.
Never been there? Here is a Map
Meeting Agenda:
- Welcome & Introductions
- What are the general interests of the group this year?
- Review the 2018-19 Schedule
- Any Hack-A-Thons or events we would like to participate in as a group?
- Any technologies that we are missing from the schedule that need to be added or removed?
- What are some key concepts of computer science that we will learn tonight?
- Events
- Conditionals
- Loops
- Variables
- Intro to Scratch – https://scratch.mit.edu/
- Girl Scout Cookie Pong (PDF)
- Let’s Play the finished game first: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/214256666/
- Let’s build it! START HERE: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/214389405/
- Want to learn more? Intro to Scratch
- What’s Next? Let’s pick a few projects from Made with Code (https://www.madewithcode.com/) to work on during our next few meetings!
See you at our first meeting of the 2018-19 school year!
2018-19 FVGCC Schedule
Fox Valley Girls Coding Club will meet for the 2018-19 school year on Friday evenings from 5:45 p.m.-7:45 p.m. at 25N Coworking on River Street in downtown Geneva. FVGCC is open to all girls, ages 14-18. Limited spaces are available so please sign up now! Contact us at fvgcc12@gmail.com.
Technologies
October 2018 – December 2019: We will start with the basics of programming
- Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/) for a week or so.
- Made with Code (https://www.madewithcode.com) for a week or so.
- Python (https://pythonroom.com) for at least a few weeks.
- Modern JavaScript (HTML and CSS) and perhaps React Web Development.
January – February 2019: AI
- AI / Machine Learning workshop with Xamarin – Perhaps building this cool project to use Azure Cognitive Services to identify stuffed animals from a mobile phone.
- Alexa Skills – Conversational AI
- Slack bots?
March 2019: Project
- Library Database of Seeds
April 2019: Gadget Month
- Awesome Shield has a pretty cool Arduino based hardware shield that can be used with their Ardiuno library in Adruino Studio. This might be a good stepping stone to more advanced bread-boarding with Arduino and Arduino Studio if the girls want to go in that direction! In the past, the girls have also used Makey Makeys to play the games they have built. We could take those to the next level and use some of the more advanced keyboard features. Robin also has a Hololens, Ozobot, Rasberry Pis to play with! Also, we can design models for 3D Printing using TinkerCad.
Meeting Schedule 2018-19
- October
- 12
- 19
- 26
- 27 NIU STEMfest
- November
- 2
- 9
- 16
- 30
- December
- 7 – remote meeting?
- 14
- January
- 11
- 25
- February
- 1
- 8
- 22
- 23-24 Hucky Hack NIU
- March
- 8
- 15
- 22
- April (Gadgets)
- 5
- 12
- 26
- May 3 – Last Class Cinco de Mayo Party!
Summer Fun with React Native
Hey! Is everyone sick of the pool and ready to do a little summer coding!?!?
I was recently just working my way through the main React Native tutorial found here:
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started
…and I thought I would push my little app up to GitHub and share it with you girls to see if you want to work with React Native during the upcoming year or perhaps at an upcoming event… ahem… overnight event… er… in July… in CHICAGO… ? I think you know what I am talking about!
Here is my repo – but you don’t have to fork it or even clone it, but you can if you want to. Alternatively, you can just do the tutorial. My repo is loosely based on the tutorial and you can do the same! 🙂 If you get stuck, ping me in Slack!
https://github.com/robintschroeder/hello-fvgcc-react-native
For the IDE, I was using VSCode, which is free and you can use it on a Mac or PC. You can download it here:
https://code.visualstudio.com/
It has a built in terminal panel to do your npm commands. Go to View > Integrated Terminal to open it.
HAVE FUN!
