http://www.livewires.org.uk/ 2008-07-20T16:30:45+01:00 http://www.livewires.org.uk/ http://www.livewires.org.uk/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-07-20T16:09:24+01:00 David James http://www.livewires.org.uk/helping?rev=1216566564&do=diff [Page of the Bible] This page answers some questions for people thinking about joining us as team members. What is the aim of Live Wires? “We aim to make God's Good News known to young people in the context of an enjoyable and stimulating holiday exploring computing, electronics and multimedia. We aim to do this in a way that encourages their continuing spiritual, intellectual and emotional growth.” text/html 2008-06-29T22:58:23+01:00 Steven Ackroyd http://www.livewires.org.uk/ypq?rev=1214776703&do=diff IMPORTANT Before clicking Send, please check that you have given your name, an email address and have selected all 5 activities. The form will be rejected without all these, and you may have to start again! Please check at the bottom of the page after clicking Send for a confirmation that the details have been sent, or that there is an error. Hi there! We’ve started planning the LiveWires holiday for you ready for this summer. This ‘questionnaire’ is our way of finding out what you … text/html 2008-06-29T22:25:10+01:00 Steven Ackroyd http://www.livewires.org.uk/techact08.html?rev=1214774710&do=diff text/html 2008-06-25T19:27:58+01:00 Mark White http://www.livewires.org.uk/travel?rev=1214418478&do=diff LiveWires is held in the grounds of Chafyn Grove School. The school is easiest to find from the St Mark’s roundabout at the junction of the A36 ring road and the A30 London Road. Take the exit for Bourne Avenue (Laverstock). It is the first exit after the A30. Almost immediately turn sharp left; the school is directly in front of you. If you follow the road round a little further you’ll find the school’s rear car park on your left. You can see the school's location on google maps; th… text/html 2008-06-23T22:41:03+01:00 Mark White http://www.livewires.org.uk/sandbox?rev=1214257263&do=diff This is my little sandbox. I want to play with php. Include: text/html 2008-06-23T21:42:14+01:00 Mark White http://www.livewires.org.uk/sidebar?rev=1214253734&do=diff * Home * About * Apply * Travel * Activities * Helping * Python * Contact text/html 2008-06-23T21:41:47+01:00 Mark White http://www.livewires.org.uk/home?rev=1214253707&do=diff LiveWires is an annual holiday run by Scripture Union for 12 to 15 year olds. For more details, look around this website, or get in touch! Dates: 10-17 August 2008 Venue: Chafyn Grove School, Salisbury Cost: £182 Things to see here: * Read about the holiday * See the technical activities we offer * Learn how to apply * Find out how to get there * Find out about helping on the holiday * Look at our python course * Get in touch with the team text/html 2007-12-30T17:37:07+01:00 David James http://www.livewires.org.uk/activities?rev=1199036227&do=diff There are loads of different activities on LiveWires - some multimedia projects (with music and video), some computing projects (programming and graphics), and a wide range of electronics projects (soldering resistors and chips etc.). Different activities take different lengths of time: they are listed below as being Longer (about two thirds the length of the holiday) or Shorter (about a third of the holiday's length). You'll have time to do one Longer activity and one Shorter one, or three Shor… text/html 2007-12-08T21:10:15+01:00 Steven Ackroyd http://www.livewires.org.uk/contact?rev=1197148215&do=diff [People jumping] The overall leaders of LiveWires are Mark White and David James - you can get in touch with us with any questions: * Email: <leaders@livewires.org.uk> * Phone Mark: 020 8395 3583 * Phone David: 01494 817034 If your question is about applications, Jonathan Clark is our applications secretary: text/html 2007-12-08T21:07:09+01:00 Steven Ackroyd http://www.livewires.org.uk/apply?rev=1197148029&do=diff [A dorm group seeing how many people will fit in a small car!] Here's what you do: * Double-check the dates: LiveWires 2008 is on 10-17 August 2008. * Fill in an application form: if you've received an SU Holidays brochure, there are two forms stapled into the centre. Or you can go to the Scripture Union Holidays website where you can fill in an online form which you can print out. * Sign the form yourself, and get your parent/guardian to sign it as well. * Send the form, with a dep… text/html 2007-12-08T21:06:18+01:00 Steven Ackroyd http://www.livewires.org.uk/about?rev=1197147978&do=diff [Group of young people enjoying the day out] Want to make the most of your technical or creative side? Then LiveWires is for you! Come to LiveWires to try out exciting new skills with the best technical gear; come to LiveWires for lively worship, to get to know God better, and to spend time with Him; come to LiveWires to have a great time and make new friends. text/html 2007-12-08T16:10:09+01:00 Mark White http://www.livewires.org.uk/timetable?rev=1197130209&do=diff The timetable from 2007 is available to view here: text/html 2007-12-08T12:48:13+01:00 Mark White http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/credits?rev=1197118093&do=diff Comments and questions If you've got comments on or corrections to the course or package, you can email the maintainer at <python@livewires.org.uk>. The current maintainers are Rob Pearce and Rhodri James. Corrections as context diffs of the source files are especially welcome :-) text/html 2007-12-07T21:16:12+01:00 Mark White http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/games-spec?rev=1197062172&do=diff This has now been made mostly obsolete by switching to PyGame. THIS IS OBSOLETE. It's here for historical interest. PW Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 22:33:52 +0100 (BST) From: Gareth McCaughan To: Paul Wright, Neil Turton, Richard Crook Subject: Preliminary spec for games library Here's a very preliminary spec for the games library, derived from Richard's screen.py . Most of the functionality is already in Richard's library. An implementation should be available by (at a guess) Thursday, thoug… text/html 2007-12-07T21:14:45+01:00 Mark White http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/beginners-spec?rev=1197062085&do=diff v1 Simple Graphics API for Python ============================== Preliminaries All coordinates are given in pixels. The origin is the bottom left of the window (i.e., that pixel is (0,0) and coords increase upwards and rightwards). Any coordinate passed into the library can be given either as two arguments or as a pair of arguments. In this context "pair" means "2-tuple or 2-list". Colours are opaque objects made by |make_colour|. The library d… text/html 2007-12-07T21:13:24+01:00 Mark White http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/developers?rev=1197062004&do=diff Making modifications and distributing them The package is released under the BSD licence. Under this licence, you can distribute modified versions of the package, subject to certain conditions. For more details, see the licence page. Note: If you modify the package and so produce a derived work of it, note that the licence requires that you do not use the LiveWires name to promote this work without our permission. Do ask us for permission though: you're likely to get it as long as what you're… text/html 2007-12-07T21:10:40+01:00 Mark White http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/impatient?rev=1197061840&do=diff text/html 2007-12-07T21:10:06+01:00 Mark White http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/inexperienced?rev=1197061806&do=diff text/html 2007-12-07T20:47:51+01:00 Mark White http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/licence?rev=1197060471&do=diff The general idea The licences under which we've released both the worksheets and the LiveWires Python package are intended to allow other people to copy and modify our work. Unlike commercial software licences, they're not intended to restrict your freedom to copy the sheets and software, rather, they're intended to encourage copying. text/html 2007-12-07T20:30:54+01:00 Mark White http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/home?rev=1197059454&do=diff The LiveWires Python Course is intended to teach the Python programming language to people who have never programmed before. The current LiveWires Python Course release is release 1.2. The current LiveWires package release is release 2.1. The major change from version 1.0 is the use of the Pygame library for the games worksheets; version 2.1 fixes a number of bugs in 2.0.