dev world - australia 2014

Hey everyone, Speaking at DEV WORLD australia about our work. If you are in Melbourne....Come on down!

Year 9 app upgrade

The year 9s have already given us a few ideas about upgrades to the existing app. I was on my own this week so we coded for half the lesson and then did a design exercise for the rest. I'll upload some of the ideas. Whoops no wait that is "Honey" the coding chihuahua!!!

core data

Hi Everyone, Tristan and Jeremy were away last week on research so Matt and I took the year 10's this week. We finished a lesson for their new note taking app which is going to feed into the tourism business down South. We started on Core Data with them. Its great to see some the students taking care of their own maintenance. The student that upgrades his own XCode will usually team up with someone else who needs it. These kids that are now coding socially on the weekends are pretty enthusiastic in the class. You always can spot a "geek in training". Because that is the child that was you not so many years ago. The year 10's are completely unfussed about XCode. Its just something they do now on a regular basis. They have become really relaxed about debugging too. Mel