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  • Have your code run in Space!

    Each year the AstroPi programme invites young coders to join in with the opportunity to write code for experiments that can be run on Raspberry Pis on the Space Station! The results of the experiments created by last year’s AstroPi entrants are now in: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/astro-pi-mission-space-lab-2022-23-results/ If you like the idea of writing some code to […]

  • A new option for coding on the web

    The Raspberry Pi foundation have launched a new Online Code Editor: https://editor.raspberrypi.org/en/ You can try it out using this project: https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/hello-world-editor/1 The code editor currently supports Python but more languages are planned in the future. Because it runs from the web, it can be used on many devices, including Chromebooks, iPads and even phones (probably […]

  • Coding with Unity

    Wondering what IDE to use with Unity? Here’s one option: Unity Development with VS Code

  • Unity project paths

    We’ve had a few Ninjas recently interested in starting in Unity and finding good starter tutorials can be over-whelming. There is now a new Project Path for Unity on the Raspberry Pi Projects website, which has been created with Support from Unity Technologies. It aims to help new creators to learn about Unity and get […]

  • First session of 2023

    It was great to see some familiar and new faces at our first 2023 session today. We had Ninjas working on Scratch projects, Unity and even C++ on a 30 year old Commodore Amiga 1200!

  • New Year New Project?

    Need some inspiration? The Raspberry Pi Foundation have a great project finder resource: https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects From here you can select the type of software/language you’d like to work on, or find a project for hardware (Raspberry Pi, micro:bit and more) or by the topic that you’re interested in! Unity If you’re interested in getting into Unity, […]

  • Advent of Code

    If you fancy a daily coding challenge, why not try https://adventofcode.com/ You have a new challenge every day in December (you can go back to past days if you miss any) and can code in any language you like!

  • Sunday 7th November

    Great session today with more ninjas returning to the Everyman after the long lockdown break and showing their skills with various languages from making games in Scratch to creating an operating system using Rust or even writing assembly code. We also welcomed a new ninja who worked with one of our mentors to look at […]

  • Sunday 17th October

    Great session at the Everyman this morning with some new Ninjas showing our mentors their coding skills. Lots of python ideas and a new racing game have kept us entertained. A new ninja has started using this beginners book to help with learning the code for scratch.

  • Colour chart for Python code

    Helpful colour chart when doing turtle projects!