Fox Valley Girls Coding Club

Welcome & Introductions
- Anyone new this week? If so, no problem!
- Anyone have something new to share?
Made with Code https://www.madewithcode.com/
- Music Mixer
- Avatar
Brief chat about different programming languages
Intro to Python (still deciding between)
- PythonRoom
- CodeMonkey Python Chatbot

October 12, 2018 Meeting – Welcome!

Posted on September 28, 2018October 12, 2018 by Robin

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

Posted on August 20, 2018October 12, 2018 by Robin

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

Posted on June 29, 2018June 29, 2018 by Robin

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!

screenshot-1530234853134 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!

April 20, 2018 Meeting

Posted on April 20, 2018April 20, 2018 by Robin

Tonight we will meet in the boardroom in 25N.

This is our last working meeting of the 2017-2018 school year!

We will discuss our weather wear project and what the next steps should be, including deploying to azure and providing a web API endpoint to the Swift team.

We can also discuss plans for next year – schedule, meeting room, etc.

We will also continue with gadgets:

- Playing (i.e. shooting holographic bugs) with the Hololens
- Arduino projects
  - If you haven’t already, you can make a free account at the Arduino online IDE here: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software.
  - 2 Snapinos
  - 2 AwesomeShields
  - A MakeyMakey or two!

April 13, 2018 Gadgets!

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Robin

Tonight we will meet in the boardroom in 25N for more gadgets!

We will break into small groups:

- Playing (i.e. shooting holographic bugs) with the Hololens
- Arduino projects
  - If you haven’t already, you can make a free account at the Arduino online IDE here: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software.
  - 2 Snapinos
  - 2 AwesomeShields
  - A MakeyMakey or two!

April 6, 2018 Meeting

Posted on April 6, 2018April 7, 2018 by Robin

April is ‘Gadget Month’!

Tonight we will kick off Gadget Month with a little Arduino programming as well as some fun with the Hololens. Tonight, we will play a little RoboRaid!