Oh totally Robin! JavaScript has always phased me out for some reason. I’ve dabbled with Python a little, with indentation scope it always seems to remind me of COBOL, something I did in my second year of College and really enjoyed it. I also have a Raspberry Pi, which I mostly use as a development Git repository server as that makes moving code between Moodle installations easier, so cherry picking etc. And as a backup too. But can do Python GPIO stuff too. The key thing is coming up with an idea in the first place, that you can then use as your learning goal.

Thanks Stuart. Totally AI crazy! I quite liked “Google Wave”, now taken over by Apache -> https://incubator.apache.org/projects/wave.html – but the key thing is that it was and still is to me, essentially eMail, just a means of grouping conversations, which interestingly enough, I now use in Thunderbird – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/message-threading-thunderbird – where it’s called ‘Message threading’. I’m not a fan of AI until I can be convinced that it is a good thing for society. We have perfectly (most of the time) good organic neural networks out there, so if its not broken then don’t fix it. Rather that the machine remains the tool to undertake the repetitive tasks that cause us to make mistakes.