Back in 2019, when I did my programming retrospective I made a few predictions. How did those go? Work on my Extra Life Donation Tracker? Yup! See below! Write more C++ thanks to Arduino? Not so much. C# thanks to Unity? Yes, but not in the way I thought. I only did minor work on my game, but I did start a new GameDev.tv class. Learning Ruby? Well, I wouldn鈥檛 necessarily say I learned Ruby....
With the twins, I messed around with a Neopixel strip. Not sure what I鈥檇 do with one in a future project, but at least I know how to program it in MakeCode now. Our project: Messing around with the Neopixels Strip
Since I鈥檝e been making a lot of great progress programming with the kids in Scratch, I bought some Circuit Playground Expresses to program with the kids. The Circuit Playground Express can program in Arduino鈥檚 C dialect, CircuitPython, or Microsoft MakeCode, which uses blocks like Scratch. Today Scarlett and I made our first useful bit of code, a digital spinner we called The Sibling Chooser. Here鈥檚 the code, and you can see that it is indeed like Scratch:...