YouMedia Coding @ Chicago Public Library

Weekly coding activities in YOUmedia Chicago for high school teens

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Camelia continued to fix her code this week as she found that there was an error. The right photo is the code that Camelia figured out this week and the two can be compared.

Bonus: Can you figure out what is wrong with the code in the left picture?

As you can see in the photo to the left, she set up CSS ‪#‎id‬ selectors which simply is a styled format shortcut you apply to any element. CSS iDs are useful if you plan to use the style/format for multiple elements so you wouldn’t have to write it for each element.

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Two YOUmedia staff members took time to learn how to create and code a circuit that includes a PIR Motion Sensor, two LEDs, and a Laser Pointer. The circuit works by having the LEDs and motion sensor turn on dependent on the motion sensor triggered. 

You can see this circuit installed in a flying creature on Wabash and 9th st in Chicago. 

Expect more motion sensor activities coming this summer.  

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This last Wednesday, Camelia learned text decoration, background color, and text color. This upcoming Tuesday, teens will be introduced to basic CSS syntax

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We are doing coding at the Chicago Public Library in YOUmedia HWLC

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Last week, teens used SubLime Text to get introduced to HTML learning opening/closing tags, structure, and how to include images.

This Wednesday and Thursday, teens will learn how to add color to text, background colors, and boxes.

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During our Coding Workshop last week, teens learned HTML syntax structure as well as opening and closing tags. Here, Camelia writes code and opens it up on a webpage. This program schedule, we hope to cover HTML, CSS, and C# through the end of April.

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Teens took apart ann old braille machine during our Get Wrekt! workshop last week. We found out that the machine only printed on half of the sheet. Later during the workshop, we found out that the problem for not working correctly was a mechanical issue; two of the metal pieces that printed on the paper needed oil. 

Kaela had never seen a braille print machine before this workshop. She instantly got a screwdriver and started to take apart the old machine with excitement once she found out that we were taking it apart. She was able to learn the different components of the machine that made it work along with some codes for the braille machine. 

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Before our <code>Workshop</code> workshop one-off, Alex expressed interest in learning how to write code to create squeeze pages. “A squeeze page is a landing page designed to capture opt-in email addresses from potential subscribers. The goal of a squeeze page is to convince, cajole, or otherwise ”squeeze” a visitor into providing one of their most sought-after and coveted pieces of personal data: the email address”(Wikipedia)

Here Alex is teaching himself the programming language of jQuery which is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML and needed to create Squeeze Pages. 

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Programming 8 LEDs on a bread broad in binary and octal just using two outputs clock and data from the Arduino. to light up 8 LEDs.. 

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During our FUSE workshop last month, teens worked on introductory game design using Stencyl. In this video, you will see one of our YOUmedia teens added coin collection as a behavior to the game but has to figure out how to change the game so she can capture the flag. 

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Last week during Get Wreckt! teens were introduced to an oscillator and learned how the electronic device worked. Teens figured out that the oscillator records voltage over time and were able to record the voltage coming from music later in the workshop.

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During our FUSE STEM workshop, a teen reiterated some coding concepts behind Arduino and was able to do a simple code to display on the LCD screen. We are waiting for a RT module chip to come in to program the date and time on the Arduino and hopefully we’ll have it operational sometime next week.

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Miguel didn’t know how to code and was interested in learning. He found our YOUmedia workshops by checking out the chipublib.org website and saw that they offered coding on Tuesdays at the Harold Washington Library Center. The rest is history. Miguel learned HTML basics like how to create text, add color, font, add photos, and links. Check it what he created 

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Teens displayed Star Wars on our T.V. using HTML coding!

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Coding took an interested turn when two teens decided to write code of star wars. Why Star Wars? Well Disney is making a sequel to the original and teens decided why not? Only at YOUmedia Chicago

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Alex came to YOUmedia and decided to work on a challenge given to him by a staff member. The challenge: Create a game using Scratch. His Answer: Challenge accepted. Since Alex likes coffee, there will be a coffee theme to the game

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Teens used Scratch software which is a fun, visual, and practical way of learning how to code. This teen tinkered with Scratch and is currently working on creating a game using the software. Stay Tuned!

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On a Tuesday afternoon, teens were bored and wanted something to do. What better way to learn and have fun than to code. YOUmedia teens learned HTML coding basics by remixing Mozilla's X-Ray Goggles webpage and learned how to write code to add images. As you can see our teens like flowers and pokemon