[Bradford] Fwd: [GMG-Devel] We're in Google Summer of Code and the GNOME Outreach Program for Women! It's official!

[Brian A]

I may have got the wrong end of the stick here but, in reply to Paul, I
think you are wanting a way for your son to get some experience in coding.

I learn a lot from YouTube. There are lots of tutorials on there - of
course they vary in quality.
I have followed a tutorial,of over 50 videos,on html5/CSS3 by Bucky Roberts
a.k.a. 'TheNewBoston'. I like the way he teaches. Unlike so many others,
who have little idea on how to teach, I think that he is good. He has lots
of coding tutorials. He is an amazing guy, if you look at his range of
activities you'll see what I mean.

https://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston

I think that this is a good way to learn and get a quick appreciation of a
subject.

Whilst others may disagree I think that html5/CSS3 & Javascript are going
to be important. Those together with another language - maybe Python - I
don't know any Python, my preferred language is PHP and I've not seen
anything yet that makes me want to learn Python over what I can do already.
If any of the coding is to involve the web then I'd suggest installing a
server on a home computer. It is very easy to do. I sent my Tomboy note, on
server installation, to a friend, who had never installed a server before,
and he had no problems doing it. Personally I don't like LAMP (the package)
as an installation because I can so easily get a web server up and running
using individual components such as Apache2, PHP5 & MySql in a matter of
minutes. That way I have up to date packages.

I will finish by saying that I am not a professional coder. I have written
many 1000s of lines of code  but I am almost entirely self taught, mostly
from books.

Brian





On 11 April 2013 09:55, David Carpenter <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk>wrote:

> Depending on how much coding he has done - it might be worth looking at:
> http://www.codecademy.com/learn
>
> I'm a bit sceptical at the best of times, but I think this is quite a
> good resource.
>
> I'm not sure what's available this side of the Pennines, but my
> colleague in Manchester is involved in Young Rewired State, MadLab,
> and code clubs, all of which will have young people specific
> activities/coding/electronics based over the summer.
>
> Google them and if they are of interest, then let me know if you need
> an introduction - I suspect that remote participation is also an
> option.
>
> Cheers
> David
>
> On 10 April 2013 21:46, Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi Dick (all)
> >
> > Initially when I saw this and the reference to students I hoped it might
> be
> > applicable to my son who is only 17 and doing his A levels at the moment
> -
> > but it looks crazy advanced (even tho he's a smart cookie). He's wanting
> to
> > go to Lancaster Uni to do an MSc in ICT for Creative Industries (aiming
> > high!) and hoping to maybe do something over the summer holidays this
> year -
> > but this seems like a bridge too far with very little coding experience
> > under his belt. Do you have any ideas of anything that might be
> applicable
> > for someone a little earlier in his development - maybe some kind of work
> > placement that might give him experience in the field that would put him
> in
> > a more advantageous position when going for Uni interviews?
> >
> > Really appreciate any ideas from anyone out there. I know I'm his biased
> dad
> > but he's a level-headed, motivated, fast learning young man and I'd like
> to
> > find him something that would be cool and developmental.
> >
> > Thanks for giving this your consideration.
> >
> > Paul Colley
> >
> > From: Dick Thomas <xpd259 at gmail.com>
> > To: Bradlug Mailing list <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> > Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 17:31
> > Subject: [Bradford] Fwd: [GMG-Devel] We're in Google Summer of Code and
> the
> > GNOME Outreach Program for Women! It's official!
> >
> > Any students on the mailing list looking for something to do this summer?
> > mediagoblin has the chance to be an awesome piece of software
> >
> >
> > Dick
> >
> >
> > About.me http://about.me/dick.thomas
> > Blog: http://www.xpd259.co.uk/
> > G+:   www.google.com/profiles/xpd259
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber at dustycloud.org>
> > Date: 9 April 2013 16:33
> > Subject: [GMG-Devel] We're in Google Summer of Code and the GNOME
> Outreach
> > Program for Women! It's official!
> > To: MediaGoblin Devel <devel at mediagoblin.org>
> >
> >
> > Hey all!
> >
> > I just wrote a blogpost that's worth getting excited about:
> >   http://mediagoblin.org/news/opw-gsoc-2013.html
> >
> > That's right, we're participating in both OPW and GSoC!
> >
> > If you know students and/or any women who are interested in getting
> > their feet wet with free software contributions in something like
> > MediaGoblin, please encourage them to apply!
> >
> > This summer is gonna be awesome!
> >  - Chris
> >
> > (PS: Thanks to those of you who signed up as mentors!)
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