** No Meeting Tonight** Due to weather. See you all next week on January 24th at 25N at 5:45
January 10, 2020 – Meeting at 25N
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:
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
- Change themes easily with Bootswatch Themes
- We will do a demo together to get this into everyone’s project
- Help with setting up Python environment on laptops as needed/wanted
December 13, 2019 – No Meeting Tonight
There is no FVGCC meeting tonight. We will see everyone on Friday, January 10, 2020 at 25N Coworking for our first meeting of the new year. Happy Holidays! See you in 2020!
December 6, 2019 Meeting
We will be meeting in the St. Charles Public Library this week, to avoid the traffic and congestion that comes with the Geneva Christmas walk!
Agenda & notes:
- Welcome for any new members
- Let’s make sure everyone is signed up in Slack and Codesters
- Any questions, comments, or ideas from our last meeting?
- Intro to Web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and Python Flask on Glitch
- Let’s discuss plans for the Naperville hackathon
- Sign Up HERE: https://hackftw.cf/
Remember to RSVP on Slack!
See you there!
November 15, 2019 Meeting
We will be meeting in the open space on the first floor of 25N.
Agenda & notes:
- Welcome for any new members
- Let’s make sure everyone is signed up in Slack and Codesters
- Any questions, comments, or ideas from our last meeting?
- Front Meeting Space: Intro to Codesters
- Brief presentation on concepts of Functions, Events, and Loops
- Documentation: Codesters Python2: Events Functions Loops
- Functions Code: Skeleton Bones: Codesters example of functions
- Events Code: SkeletonBonez: Events
- Loops Code: LuLu Learns Loops
- Challenges:
- Let’s add event listeners and event handlers to our ‘Create your own Adventure’!
- Create your own functions. Suggestion: try implementing a conversion based on Rapid Tables: Conversion Calculators
- Yellow Room: Gaming in Codesters
- Challenge: Let’s remix this Snake game in Codesters to make more than one apple on the board! https://www.codesters.com/preview/9696195f1eb24a09bcf599b083319443/
Remember to RSVP on Slack!
We gave away a whole lotta tacos last week! LOL
See you there!
November 8, 2019 Meeting
We will be meeting in the open space on the first floor of 25N.
Agenda & notes:
- Welcome for any new members
- Let’s make sure everyone is signed up in Slack and Codesters
- Any questions, comments, or ideas from our last meeting?
- Front Meeting Space: Codesters, Python and the Wonderful World of Conditionals
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- We will be focusing on building “Choose Your Own Adventure” games
- https://www.codesters.com/preview/601dd313d71a4869a45b5ac86086b9ea/
- Documentation/Notes for our Conditionals Learning experience:
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- Yellow Room: Codesters, Python & Micro:Bits
- Let’s build something cool with these little things, using the LED lights!
Remember, if you RSVP on Slack, you get a taco! LOL
See you there!
November 1, 2019 Meeting
We will be meeting in the open space on the first floor of 25N.
Agenda & notes:
- Welcome for any new members
- Let’s make sure everyone is signed up in Slack and Codesters
- Any questions, comments, or ideas from our last meeting?
- Main Room: Intro to GitHub!
See you there!
October 25, 2019 Meeting
We will be meeting in the open space on the first floor of 25N.
Agenda & notes:
- Welcome for any new memebers
- Let’s make sure everyone is signed up in Slack and Codesters
- Any questions, comments, or ideas from our last meeting?
- Main Room: Codesters & Python
- We will continue working through the challenges together – you can also work by yourself!
- Yellow Room: Intro to Micro:bits
- What can we do with these cool little things? 🙂
See you there!
2019-2020 FVGCC Schedule Set
We are so excited to be preparing for our 4th year of FVGCC meetings! Our first meeting will be October 18th at 5:45 p.m. at 25N Coworking in downtown Geneva.* We have set our 2019-2020 school year schedule and are working on this year’s curriculum, guest speakers, field trips, hack-a-thon plans and more.
Schedule
October 18 – Welcome & Intro to Slack
October 25 – Jump into Codesters (Python)
November – 1, 8, 15 – Codesters (Python), GitHub, & Glitch (Guest Speaker John Wright from Stack Overflow to talk about GitHub)
December – 6 – Codesters (Python) & Glitch (HTML, CSS) (Meeting at St. Charles Public Library)
December – 13 – Codesters (Python) & Glitch (HTML, CSS)
January (meetings @ Fox Build) – 10, 17, 24, 31 – Sewing – Arduino Project
February – 7, 21, (28 no school – fieldtrip?)
March – 6, 13, 20 – Codesters (Python) & Glitch (HTML, CSS), Tentative Hackathon planning
April – 17, 24 – iOS Swift Workshop (Tentative)
May – 1, 8 Farewell Party for our Seniors!
June 9, 2020 – Tentative FVGCC Hackathon
*All meetings take place from 5:45 p.m.-7:45 p.m. on Fridays at 25N Coworking, Geneva unless otherwise stated.
FVGCC welcomes new members each year. Our club is for girls, ages 14-18, who are interested in pursuing careers in computing or are simply interested in learning about coding and all you can create with what you learn. We look forward to welcoming back our current and new members. See you in October!
Wow – Our hackathon sponsors are GREAT!
Fox Valley Girls Coding Club 