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xDebug

Gareth Barnard — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Introduction Software development can be a difficult process, full of logic flows, data structures and concepts. Programs such as Moodle

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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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Simple complexity

Gareth Barnard — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Sometimes you have to write something based upon your experience and not so much on existing research. Whilst in the small hours of the morning your mind wanders and you start to think about things.

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Infinite Monkey’s

Gareth Barnard — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000

There is a saying that I know of along the lines that given enough time then a group monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare. This then lead to a thought on if it actually happened then would it be a copyright infringement? Probably not given the time that has transpired, but then consider if instead of it being a random act, then what if the monkeys had just copied the text by learning how to use the keys Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V effectively? Then how could we tell the difference? With that thought in mind, then how can assessors of work on an online eLearning platform then detect plagiarism?

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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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Decisions

Gareth Barnard — Fri, 15 May 2020 13:00:00 +0000

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

Gareth Barnard — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:00:00 +0000

Part three concludes with:

1. Classes and methods
2. Class inheritance and overloading

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Software

Gareth Barnard — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:00:54 +0000

Introduction Moodle’s logic is written in a programming language called PHP (www.php.net), this is ‘interpreted’ by another program that is

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