Sniff Programming

@Heidi_Colthup @deputygrocott Barry lit a fruit?

As much as I’m a fan of twinkl, I bloomin hate these SPaG sheets! In fact I’m not a fan of SPaG homework at all. Teach it in the context of writing!! Anyway, rant over. Any ideas with this please?

@benwohl Nonfiction? Find a suitable publisher. Download their proposal form. Fill it in. They’ll want table of contents, sample chapter, and breakdown of target audience. Knowing an author with them doesn’t hurt . There’s not much money in it though. (10% of revenue on 2000copies?)

Guess the year...

@IAmKatharineC Break the space into 6 or so panels. One key idea in each. Don’t worry about getting in every detail - it’s there to draw people in. Rather than be read line by line. you’ll be there to answer any questions. Make everything readable from 2m away.

I'm currently doing a poster presentation about my MSc research. Condensing 10,000 words down into the key facts is a challenge! Has anyone got any top tips for clear and interesting research posters?

@MathsWithJim @whaleygeek @Average_Maker That’s why I’d use $HOME instead. Just in case....

@whaleygeek @Average_Maker I wasn't being sarcastic! I can remember using the original Bourne shell that didn't have that feature because we ran v7 on the PDP-11s because the only had 1M of RAM rather than the outrageous 4M of the VAX running BSD.

I continue my argument against the Linux 'way' of doing things this evening. Apart from having to mess around with slashes for spaces and so on, this bullshit crops up tonight as well. Just let me move the damn file you awkward bastard!

@JessJessFisher yes… only the monarch can be alive & on notes.

@sniffCode Do they have to be dead?!

@bankofengland Liking the suggestions for Franklin and Hooke. As long as its not Lovelace it’s all good. (Though given her drug abuse the £50 is kind of appropriate).

Explore the world of science from the A of astronomy to the Z of zoology. Nominate the scientist you would like to see on the new £50 note: b-o-e.uk/thinkScience #ThinkScience #50poundnote

@falshubaily @bankofengland Which is why he was on the 1 pound note for many years. He’s had his (rightly deserved) turn!

@issyhowie @bankofengland Why would you put Lovelace anywhere near the other two? As you note, the others made great contributions. Yet for Lovelace you just throw out her name, because she’s “sort of famous”.

@veryalien There are versions in sniff for arduino and flotilla. Got your email. I’ve been tied up on other project recently but I’ll get you a copy of the code Tomorrow.

@sniffCode I'm looking for the sniff source for the flotilla matrix 8x8 LED games: Snake, defender and breakout. These were first done for Arduino? Or was that not in sniff? I think there are microbit versions of defender and snake in release 30, are they essentially the same.

@CatLamin @Raspberry_Pi Pdp11 & is 11/780? From which we get all unix. Personally got a soft spot for sun 3/60. And NeXT cube from which we get web and modern Mac.

@Gadgetoid @AppleSupport Phone also doesn’t support upside down portrait. iPad does! V. Useful for using while stuff plugged in

@MarmiteJunction @Gadgetoid Blocks are great when you don’t know what you want.... but typing and learning syntax is the easy bit of programming! Otherwise you end up with a Chinese’s typewriter!

@Gadgetoid Yeah, my experience of playing with Scratch was pretty much this: Pros: Stuff is hidden Cons: If it's not hidden, it's MASSIVE

RT @UoYElecEng: 10 Greville Bloodworth Scholarships worth £2,500 each available for people coming to study MSc Engineering Management. flip.it/LcgRB3 Deadline 30th April

@MrTomsWorld Wrangled indeed! They’re horrid to open up (but easy fix when you get in there). Weren’t you tempted to wait for smoke, just cause it looks awesome!!!

@digitalmaverick Pretty sure every 15yr old can figure out that an ‘assessed element’ that doesn’t contribute to mark is actually non-assessed element => is not an element.

Am *really* worried about the status & future of Computer Science as a GCSE subject now that Ofqual have confirmed students doing the exam in 2020 must also spend 20hrs (10wks) to complete the NEA th at will not count for the final marks

@pknighton67 @Baggiepr @MWimpennyS Nothing wrong with blocks conceptually. In fact sniff proves how expressive scratch is. But blocks are just too slow/bulky for larger progs. Chinese typewriter!

What’s your definition of abstraction in coding? Seem to get different answers when I speak to software developers and computing educators.... #computing #CT #caschat

@seeedstudio Fitting in the original case was always the problem with his one… (@jerwoodgallery)

#FusionGallery shared by Andy Karpov Karabas-128 rev.B1 ZX Spectrum 128k replica with real Z80 CPU and almost all logic in CPLD Altera EPM7128STC100. PCB designed to fit into original ZX Spectrum 48k (rubber keys) case. 👉 ow.ly/Jm2W30j2Y4x

@whaleygeek @PeterOnion Non of those new fangled cursor keys for me! Way too slow… hjkl forever. (And more seriously LaTeX is still the only way to write longer documents)

Here's something I've observed... Youngsters don't seem to be able to use the cursor keys, instead always using mouse to move the cursor, even when only moving a few characters back/forwards or up/down a few lines. Makes editing programmes quite slow and tedious.