A workshop on algorithms for primary schools
I recently ran a workshop on algorithms in the school where I am a governor (Bewdley Primary School) for a […]
Education
Mobile, Nerdiness
Radial and rectangular sinusoidal damping functions for iOS game dev in Cocos2d
I had to make a function that morphed the contents of an area in a Cocos2d game recently and I
Mobile, Nerdiness
Asynchronous processes in Android – Extending the AsyncTask class
A common requirement in any data driven Android app is the ability to download data asynchronously. This might be to
Education
A strategy for computer science education in UK schools
A few weeks ago I wrote about a workshop that I ran at the primary school where I am a
Nerdiness
Usability, Samsara and Jedi mind control or why gamification is evil
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I read – a lot! I also have a habit of reading
Education
The day I tried teaching primary school kids to code (and succeeded)
There has been a great deal of media attention centred around learning to code recently and some really great initiatives
Nerdiness
Enhancing the sensitivity of NMR using dynamic nuclear polarisation and quantum rotor effects
This was my PhD project which took me three years to complete and almost as long to write up! The