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I'm starting with my kids on Monday: and I'm releasing the stacks for teaching as I go along (2 already uploaded).
So, anyone who wishes to teach with these stacks, mess around for fun,
or whatever, is more than welcome to pop across to the Facebook page and "beg, borrow or steal" the material with my blessing.

Have a super Summer.

https://www.facebook.com/RMLCclasses/

Mind you, there's some fowk qha get gae queer anent Facebook, so I jalouse is munnae be sae
bad tae pit the links til the staks here, forbye:
This is the first stack for the Summer classes. The '+' button contains code: the other 3 buttons don't.
Pupils should write the necessary code in the 3 empty buttons by modifying the code in the '+' button.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mj6sd783em7ia ... e.zip?dl=0
This is the second stack for the Summer classes. The buttons with red borders contain full code.
The button ("=") with a blue border contains partial code. Pupils should complete the calculator.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8tbr1l2dv6f5v ... e.zip?dl=0

We then went onto this for homework:
The button outlined in red contains code: pupils/students were expected to script the other buttons to get the results illustrated
in the following picture:

Tomorrow (17 June) we'll be looking at elementary data sorting with this:
The buttons outlined in red contain code: pupils/students are expected to script the other buttons.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fr2ck9jwoypx3 ... e.zip?dl=0

And we'll follow that up with a spot of Math(s):

To convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit, Reamur and Rankine temperature scales.
The button outlined in red contains code: pupils/students are expected to script the other buttons.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ggrd6q3dhz1j0 ... e.zip?dl=0

The lower-level classes will start today (17 June) with this; use of the 'ask' dialogue:
The button outlined in red contains code, the 'AGE' button doesn't.
Pupils/students should write code in the button 'AGE' to get the sort of answer visible in the second picture.

It's moving day tomorrow (21 June) and the children will be introduced to using arrowKey and keyDown as ways
of moving artefacts around on-screen.

They will also learn about intersect.
The stack has lots of code missing.

If we have time we'll get started on animation:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7ktdd624o8m7b ... e.zip?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zfwpwg86mqai6 ... e.zip?dl=0

This stack involves both animation using a sequence of images inside a group and
lateral movement to produce fairly effective animation.

Basic Pelmanism game (no randomisation) with most of the code missing:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b8r6ccrn0x03s ... e.zip?dl=0

Here's a stack I ran up in class to show children how RANDOM works:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rcxpmnmptnyks ... e.zip?dl=0

This illustrates using keys to control scripts. The 'ACTION' button checks the state of the SHIFT key, and if it is depressed EXITS the script.

The card script waits for other keys to be pressed; and if the 'z' is pressed the action resumes.

I must be going through a difficult patch:

Today (5 July) I shall be teaching the children about rawKeyDown/Up, keyDown/Up and Switch-Case routines.

The materials for this are over here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.ph ... 13#p144313

Having written something for the Belkin Nostromo n52 I'm going to plug in all sorts
of fairly crappy game controllers to the computers in the school and "let them suffer":
Later on in the week I'll post anything that comes out of this exercise here.