Category: Meeting Announcements & Notes

This week we will have a mini code-challenge hack!

The Challenge: Build an on-demand analog clock in Codesters.

• The application should ask the user “What time is it?”
• The user should be able to type a time in standard 12 hour digital format. Example:  2:34 (am & pm is not necessary)
• The UI should display an analog clock face with the time requested by the user
• The application should be able to give feedback when the input is invalid
• After the analog clock has been displayed, the user should be offered the option to enter another digital time

See you then!

We will follow the agenda posted for last week’s meeting.

January 24th meeting cancelled due to weather!  We will follow this agenda for the January 31st meeting

AGENDA & NOTES:

WELCOME/REVIEW

• Welcome any new members
  • Make sure everyone is signed up in GroupMe, Slack, Codesters, and GitHub
• Any questions, comments, or ideas from our last meeting?
• Any additional info/skills/setup needed for members attending Hack For the World hackathon in Naperville on February 1
  • Sustainable Development Goals
    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300

Set up Mac and Windows laptops for:

• Python, pip (Python’s package installation manager), and IDLE
  • Practice Python Create a simple Python program using terminal or command window and/or IDLE
  • Practice pip: Use pip to install PyGame and Kivy
• PyGame:  modules for creating Python games including Sprites, sounds, and more
• Kivy: framework for creating cross-platform UI in Python
  • Practice: create a simple app in kivy
• Visual Studio Code: Code editing with rich editing capabilities,including Intellisense, debugging, code snippets, and more
  • Practice: create a simple Python program in VS Code
  • Practice: Edit a PyGame in Visual Studio Code

Instructions for installing all of the above:

• Software Setup For Windows
• Software Setup For Mac
• PyGame And Kivy Mac Install

More Good Stuff to Try:

Enhanced Python Flask app on Glitch: We previously looked at a simple Python Flask app together that accepted user input for a Dream to add to a list kept in memory. We now have a working prototype that incorporates a Snake game and uses persistent storage to keep a leaderboard in a file https://glitch.com/~rainbow-brie

Classes: Use of Class as a data structure in Python. May demonstrate/practice in Kivy and is also used in the above Python Flask app

Web Sites in VS Code/Connecting VS Code to Glitch: We will not have time to do this as a group during tonight’s meeting, but if anyone is interested in creating/editing/debugging Web sites in Visual Studio Code and/or connecting your Glitch projects to Visual Studio code for editing here is a guide:  Web Sites and Glitch in VS Code

** No Meeting Tonight** Due to weather. See you all next week on January 24th at 25N at 5:45

As we start off our 2020 New Year we will meet at 25N tonight.

Agenda & Notes:

Welcome/Review

• Welcome any new members
  • Make sure everyone is signed up in Slack, Codesters, and GitHub
• Any questions, comments, or ideas from our last meeting?
• Review basic Web site creation on Glitch
  • These are the tutorial documents from our last meeting for anyone who missed them:
    • Glitch and GitHub Starter Web Site Tutorial
    • Glitch Python Flask Project Tutorial

New or Continued Topics for Tonight

• Discuss plans for the Naperville hackathon
  • Hack For the World Web site
  • What type of technology would you like to use?
    • Build a Web site
    • Create a game?
    • Other ?
  • What skills should we practice in preparation?
• Enhance your Web site with Bootstrap
  • Bootstrap is a framework that makes Web sites look beautiful
    • Get Bootstrap
  • Change themes easily with Bootswatch Themes
  • We will do a demo together to get this into everyone’s project
    • Tutorial: Bootstrap In Glitch
• Help with setting up Python environment on laptops as needed/wanted