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A little bit of Java

16th November 20227th November 2022 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment code, Developer, development, Development Tools, Java, learning, linux, Program, programming, Raspberry Pi, Software Development

Life is all about learning and maintaining the skills you have. I started off writing software in procedural languages, then moved on to C++, being object orientated, then Java came along and I fell in love with it. I found it much easier not having to worry about memory management and having so much ‘out of box’ components, especially graphical ones. So let us learn and revisit the language and discover it.

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Icons, Words, Accessibility and Learning

16th May 20227th May 2022 Gareth Barnard 0 Comments design, Forums, Icon, Icons, learning, Moodle, Plugins, Theme, User interface, User interface design, UX, Words

hen Emma Richardson posted the words “I do like the new Edit Mode button (especially the wording – nice job UX team!) – it makes much more sense to me to have it where it is and it will make it easier for the teachers to understand the purpose I think.” on the Moodle themes forum. This got me thinking again about the ‘Edit button’ and how it has been improved in M4.0 by Bas Brands in MDL-71610. In improving my Foundation theme, I’d decided to remove the ‘Edit mode’ words on the screen because of the space it took up, when once you know what it is, then you don’t need the description. Or do you? In this post I’ll consider this point.

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Development

16th October 202110th October 2021 Gareth Barnard 0 Comments Challenge, development, Experience, learning, Problem solving, Skill, Skills, Software Development

What exactly is ‘Development’? In this post I’ll describe what it means to me within the context of ‘Software Engineering’.

LMS Jubilee Class No 45690 Leander on the Royal Duchy at Powderham, Devon, England 29th August 2021

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Downtime

16th September 20215th September 2021 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment Downtime, Facilitating learning, Gamification, learning, Maslow, PGCE, Relaxation

When I did my PGCE I learnt about ‘Maslow’s hierarchy of needs’, whereby there is a ‘pyramid’ that defines the elements in life that help support the needs above them. One of the needs at the top is ‘Self-actualisation’, which I understand to be a need state that is best for learning and indeed being productive. In this post I’ll discuss my thoughts on this.