I’m currently writing a python script to analyse web servers for connectivity. Due to various issues I have encountered whilst running this and other sites such as DDOS attacks and Mysql failing due to lack of memory. So far it probes a given site to see if it is active. If it detects connectivity it […]
A-Level Mock Assessment 2016
Based upon the WJEC A-Level specification I have put together a practical mock exam for students studying for the 2016 practical exam. You can find it here The exam contains similar questions to that of the exam whereby: The first section is about their ability to demonstrate that they can read, understand and fix code. […]
British Science Weekend @ Techniquest
Technocamps spent the weekend at Techniquest in Cardiff Bay demonstrating Computer Science. We displayed a range of technology of which we use to deliver our workshops in schools, such as our Arduino DIY gamer’s and 3D printer. There was lots of great interest in Computer Science and programming from both parents and children. Interestingly there […]
Printcraft at Llandough Primary
Today, Technocamps spend the day at Llandough primary school helping with the’re World War 2 Code breaking project. We had great fun using Minecraft to build Anderson shelters and other WW2 era objects. After which we fired up the 3D printer and printed out their models. This was great fun thanks to the printcraft server […]
Connecting to Microsoft Access Database using Python
Source Code -> import pypyodbc # Create connection – make sure you change the file paths accordingly con = pypyodbc.connect(‘DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};UID=admin;UserCommitSync=Yes;Threads=3;SafeTransactions=0;PageTimeout=5;MaxScanRows=8;MaxBufferSize=2048;FIL={MS Access};DriverId=25;DefaultDir=C:/Users/Rob/Documents/py_sql_tutorial;DBQ=C:/Users/Rob/Documents/py_sql_tutorial/Database1.mdb;’) cursor = con.cursor() cursor.execute(“SELECT customer_table.password FROM customer_table”) for row in cursor.fetchall(): print(row) con.close()
Technocamp for Year 8 Pupils| Llanwern High School
Technocamp for Year 8 Pupils Many thanks to Rob Lutken and Richard Ward from The University of South Wales for coming into school today to run the Technoclub workshops for our Year 8 Pupils. Pupils learnt all about Raspberry Pi which is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or […]
Website Tutorial 2
For those of you that are following my web development series, you can download the latest tutorial here : Website Tutorial 2 – HTML 5 Additionally here is a link to Notepad++ !
Android Application Development
I’ve just been digging around in some of my old projects and found my Hours Manager application. The purpose of the application is to provide me with a way of logging the hours that I do, given that my schedule is so busy, trying to remember when I did what can often be challenging. Unfortunately […]
Gender Diversity in the Games Industry
Gender diversity in the video games industry is currently a hot topic at the moment in the light of the gamer gate controversy. For my Individual Study module I have looked into what the problems are surrounding the topic which you can view here. I hope someone might find this work useful !