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Qwerty

Gareth Barnard — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I had my car repaired because of pot hole damage to the suspension. To instigate the process I needed

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Added value

Gareth Barnard — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Introduction We discover, we learn, we develop our skills that help us to achieve in this world, in our society.

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Documind: Chatting with Your PDFs

Robin Turner — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Just before Christmas, my line manager asked me to look at educational AI tools and prepare a talk for staff.

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Readability

Gareth Barnard — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Introduction When I was going my PGCE I was taught that when writing on the board to use separated characters

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Some more Java

Gareth Barnard — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000

As a follow on from ‘A little bit more Java’, this time we will progress to look at how we can input from the command line and enhance our program even further. The beginnings of a program can be an uphill struggle as we work away to get something that actually does something. Now we’ve made progress, that hill will start to soften and we’ll be able to add more functionality now that we have our base.

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Calendar

Gareth Barnard — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000

In recent years, I’ve been creating a calendar using images that I’ve taken. Back in 2002, I created a small Java program that prints out the calendar for the next twelve months. In my themes and on the MoodleBites eLearningWorld theme courses I have code that arranges the Moodle blocks horizontally, this is partly facilitated through the employment of column CSS classes that are based upon the ideas implemented in the Bootstrap framework. Combine all of these thoughts, and add to my recent posts with Java then I thought ‘Why can’t I get Java to create a calendar just like the one I have printed?’. And that’s what this month is all about, where we will additionally see how pre-processing of HTML output can be designed and implemented from scratch.

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A little bit more Java

Gareth Barnard — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000

As a follow on from ‘A little bit of Java’, I thought that we’d progress into something a bit more complicated. The thing is with software creation is that the initial learning curve is steep, but once you’ve gotten over that then things do become easier. One way of climbing that initial curve is to have a defined goal with an outcome that you strive to reach. The program also needs to have a purpose so that it does something useful for us. Then we will be motivated to attain the goal of achieving our solution when things get tricky. Therefore our program will take text that we enter and apply a ‘Substitution cipher’ and tell us the result. That result we can then enter again and get what we originally typed back.

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A little bit of Java

Gareth Barnard — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000

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

Gareth Barnard — Sun, 15 May 2022 13:00:00 +0000

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

Gareth Barnard — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000

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

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