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#littleBits hack day

##1. Tools to install!

1. Node.js = https://nodejs.org/
2. A text editor e.g. Atom.io = https://atom.io/

2. Checking node is installed

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BRLSI Android App

• map marker canvas - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22519809/android-custom-map-marker-canvas-drawing-and-image-sizing
• canvas can also do text etc.

So the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution have three trials around Bath for this summer - they'd really like it turned into an app and the tourist center have said they'd already publicise about it 😄

The three trials are:

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Bath Young Rewired State Festival of Code 2015

The Young Rewired State run an event each year called the festival of code - where kids under 18 get to build anything they want (but must contain some open data) and showcase it at the end of the week with all the other centers. This year the weekend was hosted in Birmingham and we had three teams presenting.

This is a run down of the things that they made!

Max - aged 13 - LittleBits Bath PollutionBits

Max made a node.js program that connected with the Bath pollution data and displayed two different sensor locations and the average pollution for Bath using littlebits. Littlebits are like lego for programming. One of the bits that I have are cloudbits - whereby we can program them over the Internet. The first picture below is some of the components that we put in a box for display purposes. This could then be used in schools or public locations to display how polluted our cities r

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#Project Tigr Books

Getting more young people interested in technology is vital for the sustainability of the tech industry in Bath and Bristol. We've written here before about what we're doing teaching in the Bath area, and why other people should start helping us too.

We're now on kickstarter with a project to turn some of our online materials into physical books to make it easier for more people to teach their own friends and family to code. Our materials are not a railroad of instructions, unlike most typical code websites where everyone makes exactly the same thing; however they inspire creativity and everyone makes something different. For example, one book will teach creating your own interactive emoji. Our materials are also accessible

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#this equals that api

These are all suggestions - I'm not an API designer - I've just consumed good and bad API's in my time.

Things I consider a good API - USGS - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_hour.geojson

A bad api example - flickr - they have numbers as strings and a stupid "root" object.

endpoint suggestions

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#Task 1

In your groups decide upon your app idea!

#Task 2

Write down what your app will do exactly. Then come up with at least 3 pictures that you will need inside your app!

#Task 3

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Weather App

This week

Finish making your person - don't forget to put some features on them like hair / eyes / mouth etc 😄

Next Week

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Timetabler

This Week

Finish making all your shapes (make sure they aren't all bigger than maybe 200 x 200?)

Next, we're going to use a language called JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) to make objects for all the timetables.

I could represent myself using JSON like so:

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Flappy Homework

This Week

Finalise your 10Q's - if you want 3 different subjects, you need 10 questions for each!

Next week

We're going to put our questions into a language called JSON, so we desperately need your 10 Q's by then!!!

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Homework Excuse Generator

Today

Next, we're going to use a language called JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) to make objects for all the timetables.

I could represent myself using JSON like so:

{