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What is a developer?

Gareth Barnard — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In our world these days we interact with advanced machines, machines that are the result of centuries of human tool development. They are complex and require careful configuration to ensure that they operate in the way we intend them to do so. There are many ‘configurations’ with varying levels of complexity. Take the software that runs on the machine, that is a ‘configuration’ that is instructions that tell the machine what to do, and yet that has a ‘configuration’ too, a set of values associated with the particular operational functionality of the software, the settings. Hopefully that configuration you can manage yourself from the information provided to you by the developer (or via a technical writer) on what each setting does. But what of the actual software? How is this created? What is this mysterious person ‘The Developer’?

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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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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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The ‘OO’ in Moodle

Gareth Barnard — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 12:00:17 +0000

Introduction Moodle stands for ‘Modular Object Orientated Dynamic Learning Environment’ (and the first word is ‘Modular’ and not “Martin’s” as

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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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Code

Gareth Barnard — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:01:40 +0000

Introduction You sit there, staring at the screen in a moment of quiet reflection, your mind wanders and thinks about

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Icing on the code

Gareth Barnard — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:01:44 +0000

Technology and the code that drives it is becoming more important to our society and technological evolution.As more and more

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