Posts By: jonny

Tickets Available for November

I’ve just added tickets for the November Coder Dojo session in Newry Library on 12th November 2016. Tickets are available here on EventBrite. I have had a Raspberry Pi book donated to the club and I will give that as a prize in November.   The October session had (yet again) many new faces interested… Read more »

Tickets Available for 1st October

Registration is open for the session on Saturday 1st October 2016 at 1.30pm. Sign up for the session on Event Brite here. We had another interesting Coder Dojo session last Saturday with more newcomers including this young fella who has built his own arcade machine using a Raspberry Pi.

Tickets Available for 3rd September

Registration is open for the session on Saturday 3rd Sept 2016 at 1.30pm. Sign up for the session on Event Brite here. We had another interesting Coder Dojo session on Saturday 20th August with a large number of first-time attendees. Thanks again to mentors Jillian Dominique Keenan and Jordan Smith and to Newry City Library… Read more »

Tickets Available for 30th July

Registration is open for the session on Saturday 30th July 2016 at 10.30am. Sign up for the session on Event Brite here. In this session I will be bringing along a BBC Microbit for a first look at this new device.  

16th July Meetup

Stas & Daniel wrote a python guess the number game

A few photos from the Coder Dojo session on Saturday with Stas and Daniel showingoff their Python code for a ‘Guess the Number’ game. Many thanks to Eddie, Jillian and Jordan for mentoring. We still had a few issues with the Library Wifi but hopefully iron this out over the coming weeks.  

16th July Session: New Time

Just an update as I have had to switch the time of the Coder Dojo event on Saturday to 10.30am, due to the library room being booked in the afternoon. I hope this is not too much of an inconvenience. Equipment I have been configuring some PC computers and laptops with Linux and the software… Read more »

Tickets Available for 16th July

Registration is now available on Event Brite for the next Coder Dojo session on Saturday 16th July 2016 Sign Up Here. At the event we are aiming to bring along more computers already configured for the programming exercises so we will have less reliance on laptops. Please try to have your Library membership number and… Read more »

First Meetup

The first meetup was a hectic affair with well over the 13 registered kids turning up and only Eddie, Padraig and myself to help out. We encountered a lot of issues with Wifi access, lack of cables of Raspberry Pis and lack of Android devices. But we are determined to make the next meet up… Read more »