ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – 23 Feb 2019

Reporting ProCodeCG R&D activities this Saturday 🙂

Abil joined the regular class because there’s no weekday class this week 🙂 He’s determined to finish a game today 🙂

The sprites (and the backgrounds 🙂 )

The room

Setting up movements

Still needs some storyline here but at least the assets are ready 🙂

Badi is getting better with HTML and CSS

He starts learning more difficult layouts

Badi is going to create a business website for his mother 🙂

Samsam’s Juz’amma App is getting better and smoother

But before he continued the project, he was asked to learn a bit about machine learning. Because it might be needed later and probably will give him some ideas on how to improve the app

the code in Thunkable

The app on the smartphone *check up the videos showing how this app wonderfully works

After we choose a surah then the app will display the Arabic letters and also the translation. Very nice app!!!

Faishal is working on an app with machine learning ability 🙂

The first is to classify nice words and bad words

and the next project to create an app to read handwriting 🙂

Entering the data sets

creating the code

Capt. Faris is researching about image detection and recognition 🙂

He even read the papers related

and testing the code

he also create his own data sets *using his friends’ faces 😀

learning and testing

Hafiz works very hard making the Dinosaur Endless Running Game

He tried lots of codes to get the real look and feel

we’re going to keep improving this game so it will give what we want 😀

the code

Fira joined the class because she wants to make a belt to help blind people

This is Fira’s design in sketch

we use arduino, ultrasonic sensor and buzzer

Testing the sensor

Now adding a buzzer to make it beeps every time the sensor detects something

The schematic

Done! The next is to put these stuff and wires to be a wearable device 😀

Al is improving his game

by giving lots of details and level of difficulties

Capt. Awa’s target today is to upgrade his vending machine to be controlled by RFID

So the vending machine will work when we tap the RFID card

Yasss it works! *see the videos for more details

Capt. Faris helped to improve the code 😀

Mohan’s task today is to create a Dinosaur Endless Running Game too 🙂

Drawing the assets

Fadhlan’s compass is working well now

Fadhlan has to design the layout of the robot

with the development board, motor controller, compass, breadboard and 3 ultrasonic sensors

He tried to make a sketch but finally gave up saying that he preferred to do it without drawing/looking at the manual 😀 😀 😀 We’ll see 😉

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ProCodeCG – Darul Hikam – Kids Coding Class – 22 Feb 2019

Darul Hikam Kids Coding Squad 😉

Captain on Duty: Captain Bullit

Hanif is ready to finish the target for today: adding a score that will follow the camera view

we finally found this code and it worked!!!

we added it to our code

and yaaayy now we got the score following the camera view! Next is to add lives 🙂

 

Khalis learns several things today

First he continued the Blockly Games challenge

and then modified his BreakOut Game in GameMaker

And then learned some basic programming with Minecraft Hour of Code

This is good for exercising 🙂

Arsa had some animations challenge to be done today 🙂

The challenge is getting harder each time 😀 This one is only animating two arms

and this one is animating two hands and two legs 🙂

two arms and one legs done

and finally all solved 🙂 Nice work!

 

Daffa accepted the challenge to do some schematic wiring today 🙂

The project is Traffic Light with Pedestrian Button. Daffa do the wiring and Faisal will do the code

The result for the first time 🙂 Not bad at all!

Andra had finished all free levels of CodeCombat

And then h e started a new path with Blockly Games

Nobel (on the right) helped Andra

Andra also tried a Hour of Code challenge

with Capt. Awa assisting

Done, finally 🙂

Faisal had finished the Measuring Heights with Ultrasonic and LCD Project 🙂

Faisal did some Blockly Games challenges while waiting for Daffa finishing the wiring

Daffa had finished his part now it’s Faisal’s

Time’s up and we had to continue it on the next class. There comes bigger problem: Faisal almost couldn’t decide whether to undo the wiring or keep it that way until the next week 😀 He hated to see untidy stuff 😀

*Photos and videos are also available here

ProCodeCG – Kids Private Class – Machine Learning – 22 Feb 2019

Reza has started learning to create a ChatBot in Python in the last private class. Today he’s going to explore more ideas, but the result is the same, to create a chatbot for teaching people about on subjects 🙂

The student management dashboard, with Reza had just been added

Projects for each students can be monitored 🙂

Reza started to create his first machine learning project on this platform

Ideas and examples we discussed today: smart home

Sorting Hat (of Harry Potter) 😉

Rock, Paper and Scissors Game

Guessing Game

Categorizing books by images

and a whole lot more! Yes, ProCodeCG is now ready to teach Machine Learning for Kids 😉

*Phots and videos are also available here

ProCodeCG – Kids Private Class – Basic Electronics – 12 Feb 2019

Today’s menu is to learn about RGB LED and Button+LED 🙂

RGB LED is very useful when you need indicators with different colors giving different information with just one LED

We got some problems with this one 🙂 First it didn’t work because of the wiring

and then the code 😀 It finally worked but we still curious why the green light never shows up 😀

Next is button and LED. Pressing the button will turn the LED on

After a while Tyo starts to remember the wiring without looking at the schematic diagram 🙂

Tyo has built the sense about debugging, both the code or the wiring 🙂

In overall, today’s lesson is a good progress 🙂 Next we will learn about toggle button, multi-function button and probably start making a traffic light with pedestrian button 😉

*Photos and videos are also available here

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – 16 Feb 2019

ProCodeCG Kids R&D can be found here every Saturday 😉 We don’t need fancy stuff, just create things and being productive with whatever we have 😉

Sam’s Memorizing Juz’amma App is still in progress 🙂

we do some code refactoring today, by adding index to refer to each verse

Capt. Faris helped Sam rewrite the code to be more efficient 🙂

Badi decided to learn web design today 😉

So he started to learn HTML and CSS

He now can create his own .HTML file and display it on a browser

and after finishing HTML and CSS, Badi will learn some JavaScript to make the website more interactive 😉

Faris is going to continue researching about Machine Learning today, and his tasks is to explore the IBM platform including setting up accounts for ProCodeCG Kids

Student management

Creating an app with Thunkable to be connected to the machine learning platform

setting up the classification

Faris is also doing this research on generating random faces and now giving colors to a black and white pics with machine learning (the image on the left is the black and white, in the middle is the result of machine learning, and the right side is the real pic)

Djalu has been added to the platform and ready to explore

This is what Djalu trying to do: classifying two groups

The result 🙂

Faishal is also being registered to the machine learning platform to explore

but apparently the platform is not stable yet

It took a long time to do the authentication and to get the result

So then we switch into creating a game with Thunkable

The result: we will score if we hit the yellow ball

and the score will be decreased when we hit the red ball

the control is done by tilting the phone. This is the code

Fadhlan got so much things to do today: assembling the robot with compass and 3 ultrasonic sensor

Testing the compass

Testing the ultrasonic sensors

modifying the code so our old robot now can navigate with 3 ultrasonic sensors without using microservo

Capt. Awa has several project to finish today

He is going to combine RFID with the Vending Machine

It worked on the first try! Yay!

Awa said he prefer to sit on the floor 😀 It makes him easier to think LOL

What’s next?

Next is to print the RFID reading to the serial monitor

We’re going to count each time we tap each RFID card

the result

and then we decided to make our own prototype of  unmanned store 😉

Each card will represents an item with different prices. So when we tap the card, it will count the total price for each item

The result 😉

Capt. Awa refused to stop before finishing up the code (this is definitely one of his glorious day! ;))

The final result!!! So super awesome!

Nice! Our prototype of unmanned store 😀

Capt. Faris and Capt. Awa: ProCodeCG R&D Discussion 😀

Yogy’s mission is to make a score or status that will follow the object

we have tried this one but not working yet. We’ll try again next week 🙂

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ProCodeCG – Darul Hikam – Coding Class – 15 Feb 2019

Because kids have to start earlier to learn coding and information technology so they can cope with what is awaiting them in the future 😉

 

Isma’ill worked in team with Faisal 🙂

Isma’ill do the coding and Faisal do the wiring

Their project today is to use an LDR sensor to activate a LED. When it is dark then the LED will be activated and it will be off when there is light

The code

The next project is LCD 🙂

ok this also worked, next time we will display sensor readings

Faisal worked in team with Isma’ill 🙂 He’s responsible to do the wiring

teamwork

testing the circuit and worked nicely

next project is LCD

that worked fine as well 🙂

Hanif made huge progress today 🙂

He keeps adding improvements to the game

including awesome animations 🙂

We tried every possible ways to improve the game, this time to add score that follows the object

the drag and drop view

the code. The score is showing now but it still not the way we wanted it 😀 Going to fix it next week 😉

Shaby will learn programming with CodeCombat today

It is like playing game but it is teaching us how to solve challenges with lines of codes

We have to type in the code on the right windows and see how it works on the left window

Capt. Bullit helped Shaby to get through the more difficult levels

How Shaby has gone so far 🙂 Excellent progress 🙂

Captain on Duty: Capt. Bullitt. He’s getting better at teaching and controlling the class now 😉

Khalis continued his Blockly journey

Today is to learn how to bring that bird back to the nest after hunting some worms 🙂

This teaches about direction in angles and x y axis

Surprisingly, Khalis already knows how to modify the script (in HTML/JavaScript) to change the appearence on the browser 🙂

He opened View Page Source and modify the code to see the result on the browser 🙂

Like this one, the “tujuh” word was supposed to be a number 🙂 So this kid already know where to modify 😀 Next time he can start to learn web programming 😉

The next topic is to learn coding with music 🙂

Khalis had to put the right notes to get the right song 🙂

Andra finished all the levels of CodeCombat today 🙂

He is certainly very good in coding and challenges 🙂

Andra can figure out almost all of the challenges given

including those difficult ones

He understands the code line by line 🙂

And kept going on until he finished all the levels

Arsa was also learning with Blockly but he chose the Pond

this teaches about distance and angles and looping 🙂

He also tried Turtle

and went back to the opening puzzle

Before he finally very interested in creating animation 🙂

In this section we are supposed to copy the shapes and make it moves

Once we get the shapes right, we can code it to make animations, like a movie

We also have to put the duration of each move

Very challenging and interesting and Arsa made lots of progress he must be proud of today 😉

 

*Photos and videos are also available here

ProCodeCG – Kids Private Class – Basic Electronics – 12 Feb 2019

ProCodeCG Kids Private Class today 🙂 We’re going to learn basic electronics 😉

The Hello World is to make the LED Blink 🙂

The circuit

The code

Done Blinking 🙂

Then we learn how to read resistor value 🙂

We read values of lots of resistors 😀

Then the next is to create multiple LED circuit

while also soldering an I2C module to an LCD

Neat! 🙂

Tyo is now can read resistor value easily

and understands why we need resistors 😉

Tyo has learned Java programming for a long time

The coding skill is very useful to learn these hardware stuff 🙂 We’re going to make lots of interesting projects out of these! 😉

Debugging and making sure all is working 🙂

Yes, a great achievement for the first class 😉 Going to learn about RGB LED and Button 😉

*Photos and videos are also available here

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – 9 Feb 2019

ProCodeCG Kids Coding Squad 😉

Hafiz’s project for today is to continue the Google Jumping Dinosaurs 🙂

It’s working but needs plenty of improvement

So Hafiz was told to do some research and implement Game Maker Language in line of codes 🙂

Badi had finished the BreakOut Game

It now has score and lives

And the next project is to create a multiplayer Pong Game 🙂

It also shows the score of both players 🙂 We just need those bricks in the middle of the room 😉

Sam has been working really hard for his Memorizing Qur’an App 🙂

Sam has to implement lots of blocks to create list of the verses 🙂

Fadhlan is scheduled to do several tasks today

First is to test all ultrasonic sensors

ok all three are working well

The details

Next is to test the compass and it is still not working

We even tried with 3 different board. Going to figure this out and next week we will start to make the robot navigate with 3 ultrasonic sensors

Sulaiman can choose any project from the list given 🙂

He had created a Miner Machine at home

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the machine will automatically generate TNT and drop it to the ground to open a hole

the RedStone wiring

The next project is to create a Sorting Machine 😉

Sorter Machine working nicely 🙂

The circuits 😉

Djalu is working on some machine learning today, continuing the last program from the last class

Djalu wants to create a Python code that can answer a question typed with the same language (English or German for example)

Faris taught Djalu how to use IBM Cloud and machine learning platform to do this

train the code to recognize certain texts based on the category

Testing the code and works 😉

Capt. Faris has to do some Machine Learning platform running on IBM Cloud today

He has to test the platform and how to sign up and all 😀

Scratch code to recognize safe and bad words

Examining the platform

Making some codes

Signing up to IBM Cloud and make sure we can tinker with Machine Learning tools there without being charged 😀

Koosha and lots of things to do as usual 🙂

The toolbox

soldering work

and ended up with this project 🙂 TFT LCD

It is working and that means next class Koosha can help Fadhlan with displaying robot mapping on this display 😉

*Images and videos are also available here

ProCodeCG – Darul Hikam – Coding Class – 8 Feb 2019

Let’s see how these little coders from Darul Hikam Elementary School are doing today 🙂

Danen with Captain on Duty: Capt. Bullit

Danen’s project today is to explore potentiometer 🙂

First, potentiometer with LED

Potensiometer with LED done 🙂

Potentiometer with buzzer done 🙂

Next: potentiometer with micro servo

Time’s up and we have to continue this project

Faisal has the same projects as Danen’s 🙂

Working on potentiometer with LED

Potentiometer with LED done 🙂

Isma’ill has the same potentiometer projects 🙂

Capt. Bullit shows Isma’ill how to do the wiring

Potentiometer with LED done

Potentiometer with buzzer

done 🙂

next, testing the micro servo and worked 🙂

Andra learned some Python programming language with CodeCombat today 🙂

Andra learned fast 🙂

Looks like he’s playing a game but he’s coding and typing the code to make the character on the left side move

The code 😉

Daffa voluntarily requested to do exercise with LightBot 🙂

This is good for learning basic programming logics 🙂

Faisal gave some help 🙂

Hanif started to create a new game today 🙂

drawing the sprites

Following directions 🙂

Testing the game

setting up the object following and views, and the game is almost finished 🙂 We will add score and background next week 🙂

*Images and videos are also available here

ProCodeCG Kids Weekday Coding Class – 7 Feb 2019

Finally we start this class again after a long holiday 😀

Hello Abil

Browsing for some ideas 🙂

creating new sprites

Hello Kinan 🙂

Kinan helped Abil with some ideas and created her own new sprites 🙂 She said she will make lots of them 🙂

We missed Justin today, hopefully he can join the next class 🙂

Abil and Kinan discussed about their next project 🙂

Nice warming up today 🙂 Looking forward for more progress next week 😉

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