Mark Hay

@stacshq Or sqlitebrowser.org SQLite db browser.

📢Can anyone help. "Does anyone know of any fully online database management app we could use to teach databases? Something with a UI that lets you view, insert, edit, delete? connected.stacs.scot join the conversation. #ByTeachersForTeachers #stacsconnected

Fancy being head of CS department @HSofG? Brilliant opportunity. #TeachComputingScience

@AberdeenCC hi there. Our recycling was missed last collection. We booked another collection last Thursday (case FS-Case-604764979 Missed Bin Collection) but still no collection as yet. Can you help?

Our team getting ready for their 1st match at Lego League. #FIRSTLEGOLeagueChallenge @robertgordons

I'm team #GIF. How do you pronounce it?

@CompSciAdams Same here atm we’re using sql db browser and Pycharm

Investigating new tools for teaching coding and found a really promising one, very like Edu Replit with a quiz platform too... their quote came in a £2.5K per year. 😅

A new ddd scenario from this evening’s tutorial. Starting very soon.

@KevRodger @CompSciAdams has been my on and off offline Python editor for a while, was only not used whilst I was invested in Replit.

@CompSciAdams @MarkHay79 Is PyCharm any good?

I see Replit isn't running web projects again... Back up plan rapidly required for coursework chaos which is round the corner.

@CompSciAdams pycharm does have en education part where you can build lesson tutorials etc but haven't got into that am going to keep as separate Google docs

@MarkHay79 Ooh I’ll look into these. Do they have any of the nice extra features? Like code reviews/marking, tutorials ? I was thinking about using VS code for Python and web - with OneDrive for checking pupils work.

@CompSciAdams Was just going to stick with notepad++ for web at N5 tbh db browser has the ability to browse the tables that replit didnt have (and uses SQLite) Thonny has pretty good preakpoints and expression evaluation. Pycharm has a nice clean UI and watchpoints/breakpoints work well

@ComputingRGU The next session is Monday (8th Jan) on SDD - standard algorithms and debugging and testing @stacshq

Happy New Year to our X (Twitter) network! We wanted to start the new year sharing this incredible resource for teachers, who are seeking high-quality Computing Science specific videos to raise awareness and spark curiosity among pupils. Check it out! stacs.scot

@MattersOfCS Thanks Peter, always great to build up a library, might see if mines need tweaked a little, was desperate to keep them on one page. Hope you are well!

@MarkHay79 They were the original inspiration for my BGE to N5 ones. I liked the less abstract examples you included and thought it would be helpful for my students if I included more variations for the later core concepts and standard algorithms.

An early Christmas present 🎁 for anyone teaching python 3 in the BGE, National 4 or National 5 level CS. Four pages of quick reference cards with short but meaningful python examples grouped into common patterns and algorithms. See CSS Microsoft team on Glow or DM me for a copy

@MrdouglasCS @CompSciScot Trouble is only having 1 Higher course. As soon as we open the can of worms that X is a good topic and Y is a topic how do we fit it into 1 course? Love the regular updates but too much of a good thing would be a bad thing for workload. Also staff training to consider.

@CompSciScot "Too dry" a subject. If only there was a AI unit with it being such a hot topic right now... oh wait, there was it was removed when we changed to "new Higher". If only there was a robotics unit... oh wait there was, it was removed when standard grade was dumped.

"...storytelling to help attract young people into tech. Is "Computer science" too dry a term?" CS was a common theme at today's event around Digital Glasgow which was fantastic to see.

We are back again for the second SDD session for this years upskill course is starting with 4 more amazing hosts! Lucinda, Conor, @MarkHay79 and @tonyharkins #UpSkillWithSTACS #ByTeachersForTeachers

@mcwhim @csteachian Thanks for the useful evaluations tonight!

@csteachian @CarnegieMellon I will never go back to the crappy workarounds I used before dataclasses

@LilliH99 @eslweb @Replit Pycharm is on my list to get installed too. Used it previously but never the education aspect

Thank you @eslweb for this video showing how PyCharm may make a good replacement for @replit edu. I like the fact that it provides both markdown instruction sheets and student testing for their solutions. Will have a good play around with it myself.

@rarthurtweets @Replit @CompSciScot @stacshq @RaspberryPi_org Yeah have seen it’s in beta, thanks.

@MarkHay79 @Replit @CompSciScot @stacshq I know @RaspberryPi_org are developing a code editor for teaching programming and the team are keen for feedback - editor.raspberrypi.org/en/

I’m sure a lot of other Computing teachers in Scotland now looking at alternatives now that @Replit are deprecating Edu Teams as of tomorrow. Made such a great product and now the rug being pulled out midway through the academic year… @CompSciScot @stacshq

@TricksyBell @CompSciScot was heavily invested in replit but we are going to back offline for a bit, using IDLE and perhaps PyCharm and then take a view as to where to go longer term.

@CompSciScot Think we have decide to go back to desktop IDLE 😫 - budget is really limited like everywhere else Also considering DPIA for another platform. Whatever we choose needs in place before coursework- oh and all our existing content out of Repl

Alternative browser based IDE that supports multiple languages, including SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, and Python. Must have ability to create student accounts without email. Create thread of potential options. Working together to find solution.