Hi Paul,
> > I would think it's down to the teacher. Can't imagine school
> > govenors having the remotest idea about appropriate programming
> > languages.
>
> In general possibly not, but I know of two schools where this wouldn't
> be the case - and not just because I'm a governor at both of the
On 14/09/18 18:28, Paul Tansom wrote:
I would think it's down to the teacher. Can't imagine school govenors having
the remotest idea about appropriate programming languages.
** end quote [t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk]
In general possibly not, but I know of two schools where this wouldn't
be the cas
** t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk [2018-09-14 12:39]:
> > Python's cross-platform, even the GUI too with TkInter. It's common on
> > the Raspberry Pi. The BBC micro:bit uses the MicroPython derivative.
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro:bit It's no contest out of those.
>
> I agree.
>
> > htt
On Friday, 14 September 2018 12:38:50 BST t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
> I would think it's down to the teacher. Can't imagine school govenors
> having the remotest idea about appropriate programming languages.
I was a school governor...
I see what you mean :-)
--
Terry Col
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/computer-science-and-it/gcse/computer-science-8520/teaching-resources
is interesting. PDFs for lots of topics to cover, e.g. Huffman code.
And Python syntax code cards for Coding Club. Nothing for VB.Net,
Java, ...
So perhaps it's the school's choice to pl
Hi Ralph
On 13/09/18 17:05, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
For his school computing course, my son has been told he needs to
download Visual Studio 2017 onto a Windows PC, to write some
simple programs in vb.net. We don't have any Windows machines
It used to be Linux users were the odd ones o
Hi Tim,
> > > For his school computing course, my son has been told he needs to
> > > download Visual Studio 2017 onto a Windows PC, to write some
> > > simple programs in vb.net. We don't have any Windows machines
It used to be Linux users were the odd ones out and everyone else had a
Windows PC
On 13/09/18 11:16, Terry Coles wrote:
I only need it to do updates on my Garmin Satnav and view Solar PV generation
from my eLink Energy Monitor, but unfortunately those (somewhat) niche
industries don't appear to know about OSs other than Windows and Mac (even
though their devices are almost ce
I used to run a Windows 10 VM on KVM/Qemu on a Linux desktop with a fairly
slow CPU (dual core i5, but an old one) and it was actually very fast and
usable, although I never really fired up anything like Visual Studio since
that's a huge beast anyway. As always fast disk and plenty of RAM helps a
l
On Thursday, 13 September 2018 09:45:10 BST t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
> Well, that's a real revelation. Looking at the service host processes
> under the Windows task manager, there are a bunch of update processes.
> After 15 minutes or so these are done and the machine becomes usable -
> than
Hi Terry
On 13/09/18 07:43, Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 21:43:45 BST t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
For his school computing course, my son has been told he needs to
download Visual Studio 2017 onto a Windows PC, to write some simple
programs in vb.net. We don't have any
Hi Patrick
On 13/09/18 00:11, Patrick Wigmore wrote:
Hi Tim,
...my son has been told he needs to download Visual Studio 2017 onto
a Windows PC...
Are there any options other than spending several hundred pounds on
a new PC to run this bloatware for compiling programs.
MonoDevelop is proba
On 13/09/18 01:23, Peter Washington wrote:
I would suggest using either Visual Basic Express 2015, or the same for
2017, if it exists, it's simpler and less bloated.
There may be way to stop Windows trying to check for updates every time, or
you could just wait for the first update check to fini
On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 21:43:45 BST t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
> For his school computing course, my son has been told he needs to
> download Visual Studio 2017 onto a Windows PC, to write some simple
> programs in vb.net. We don't have any Windows machines, so for starters
I complai
I would suggest using either Visual Basic Express 2015, or the same for
2017, if it exists, it's simpler and less bloated.
There may be way to stop Windows trying to check for updates every time, or
you could just wait for the first update check to finish and then it
should, in theory, be quicker
Hi Tim,
> ...my son has been told he needs to download Visual Studio 2017 onto
> a Windows PC...
> Are there any options other than spending several hundred pounds on
> a new PC to run this bloatware for compiling programs.
MonoDevelop is probably the closest equivalent to Visual Studio on
Linu
Hi
For his school computing course, my son has been told he needs to
download Visual Studio 2017 onto a Windows PC, to write some simple
programs in vb.net. We don't have any Windows machines, so for starters
I installed Windows 10 and VS 2017 under Virtualbox. But it's painfully
slow (primar
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