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A little bit of CSS, part one

16th October 202010th October 2020 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment

Introduction In reading some of the posts on the Moodle theme’s forum (moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=46) I realise that the problems are sometimes

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SynHi

16th September 202010th September 2020 Gareth Barnard 2 Comments filter, Moodle, Plugin, plugin publish, syntax, syntax highlighting

Introduction In writing posts like ‘What a difference a character makes’ (www.elearningworld.org/what-a-difference-a-character-makes), I’ve been describing code, which on its own

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Video

16th August 202019th August 2020 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment Audio, copyright, foss, kde, kdenlive, Video, video editing, video production, virtualbox

Introduction If a picture can speak a thousand words, then what about video? In this post I’m going to briefly

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What a difference a character makes

16th July 202018th July 2020 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment code, passbyreference, passbyvalue, PHP, Program, reference, value

Introduction If you’ve not read my ‘The first step’ posts (all three – one, two and three) and don’t understand

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Seventies

16th June 202024th July 2020 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment CSS, font, FontSquirrel, Foundation, groovy, PHP, retro, scss, seventies, Theme

Introduction During the lock-down, my hair has progressively got longer, so much so that I’m reminded of the ‘look’ of

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Decisions

16th May 202024th July 2020 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment PHP, Software Development, Software Engineering

Introduction My last three posts have been about learning PHP, so this month I thought I’d continue on a smaller

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The first step – part three

16th April 202024th July 2020 Gareth Barnard 2 Comments class, code, Developer, development, inheritance, object, Object Orientated, PHP, Software Development, Software Engineering

Part three concludes with:

1. Classes and methods
2. Class inheritance and overloading

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The first step – part two

16th March 202024th July 2020 Gareth Barnard 4 Comments apache, code, coding, Developer, development, learning, PHP, Raspberry Pi

Last time in part one we setup a web server and looked at PHP output. This time in part two we will look at:

1. variables
2. functions
3. scope and globals

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The first step – part one

16th February 202024th July 2020 Gareth Barnard 4 Comments apache, code, coding, Developer, development, learning, PHP, Raspberry Pi

So you want to modify your Moodle installation? You’ve learnt a little about HTML and CSS, but you’re not really a programmer. As Moodle’s dynamic element is orchestrated by PHP which is a scripting language (similar to a programming one). How can you make that leap?

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Interpretation of Data

16th January 202024th July 2020 Gareth Barnard 2 Comments C, code, compile, CPU, data, interpretation, memory

How do computers store, process and interpret data? In this post we will explore through the medium of simple programs how this happens.

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