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Category Archives: coding

Mission Libre

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Mission Libre

Mission:Libre is a new, independent project for teens all over the world who love free software. We aim to help teens learn about software freedom and develop the skills they’ll need as they become tomorrow’s contributors and activists. Mission:Libre will help spread the word about free software.

<a href=”https://missionlibre.org/”>Mission Libre</a>

Early days with this yet, but the idea is ambitious and innovative. Hopefully this will be successful.

There are lots of projects, resources and tutorials out there and any inititive to help bring people together under a common cause is always welcome.

Lets see what happens and if there will hhe a few people from the South west getting involved with this.

Assembler programming

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Assembler programming

Added to here from my blog,

I am gathering some resources here on programming using ARM processors. Also provided some resource links for x86 based architecture too.

ARM

RISC V

iA86

Other

Lug meets April 2025

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MEETINGS

The group hold regular meetings

  • 3rd Saturday (from 12) – Jitsi. Meet
  • 4th Saturday, Plymouth social. 1200 onwards at the Moments Café

69A New George Street, Plymouth, GB PL1 1RJ

Members are encouraged to arrange meetings in their area.   This is helpful due to the geographical nature of the area.

Wider Community

Exeter Raspberry Pi Jam – 1st Saturday of the month,  Exeter Library

Torbay Tinkerers  – 4th Saturday of the month at Paignton, 09:30 to 12:00ish  STEAM Café and Discovery Centre, 13 Torbay Road, Paignton.  Please see the [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554348046709) for details.

NB;  March meeting will be on Saturday 29th March.

LibrePlanet 2021

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LibrePlanet 2021

Empowering users

March 20-21, 2021

Virtual Conference

https://libreplanet.org/2021/

 

IRC LINK : #libreplanet

Server : chat.freenode.net

Webchat : webchat.freenode.net

Registration (benefits, the Participant tier is gratis)

South Devon Tech Jam Meeting

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South Devon Tech Jam – Virtual Meeting
We are back,  Just virtually using Big Blue Button – video conferencing
Details from our Meetup page.
contact e-mail for more details  : info AT sdtj DOT org DOT uk

Free Code Camp

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Free Code Camp

If you are looking to learn about creating websites then Free Code Camp offer a free Responsive Web Design Course.  You can sign up and work through all the activities at your own pace.  Thee is an online forum to get help, help others.

http://www.freecodecamp.org

We are working through this at the Paignton Code Club and at the South Devon Tech Jam

Repl.it

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Repl.it

Repl.it is a web based development environment.  This gives you an instant IDE to develop your code and projects.   It has recently been updated so that it is multiplayer by default so you can collaborate in real time with fellow developers / hackers, which should help increase productivity and or learning / teaching potential of this platform.   Great work to the Development team.

Please see https://repl.it/ for more information and to sign up.

Screen Shot by Paul Sutton – zleap

South Devon Computing at School

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South Devon Computing at School

Work to restart the South Devon Computing at School Community seems to be going well, we could do with some more teachers and other staff to get in touch and say how you would like to be supported.

Twitter @compatsch

e-mail : compatsch@bcs.uk – The local contact is Claire Davenport

  1. Computing At School Website

Libreoffice : How to help

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LibreOffice : How to help

LibreOffice is a well featured free and open source office suite.  As with any project contributors are welcome and encouraged to get involved. There are lots of different jobs to do, so not everything is about coding.   Please see the following link for more information, and see how you may be able to help.

https://whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org/