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16th September 2020 Gareth Barnard

SynHi

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

16th August 2020 Gareth Barnard

Video

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

Elearning World Technical

16th July 2020 Gareth Barnard

What a difference a character makes

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

Elearning World Font Moodle Technical Theme

16th June 2020 Gareth Barnard

Seventies

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

Elearning World Technical

16th May 2020 Gareth Barnard

Decisions

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

Elearning World Linux Technical

16th April 2020 Gareth Barnard

The first step – part three

Part three concludes with:

1. Classes and methods
2. Class inheritance and overloading

Elearning World Moodle Technical

16th March 2020 Gareth Barnard

The first step – part two

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

Elearning World Moodle Technical

16th February 2020 Gareth Barnard

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?