Saturday, 25 April 2020

Some community service for the Circuit Breaker period in Singapore

I guess many Singaporeans are stuck at home, worried about their jobs, the economy etc. While I can't find the extra cash to donate for the greater good, the time at home hasn't been squandered (at least not 100%). Last year, I started picking up Scratch, and came up with a whole series of lessons for kids to learn about programming. Found many ways to create interesting game interfaces, that can be incorporated into an additional course. It wouldn't be difficult to teach using a Zoom session or via other web meeting platforms, but I do not have the students at the moment. Hence, the decision, as a form of community service, to create a YouTube video for everyone to learn the basics. Embedded video is shown below. It took about 8 to 10 hours to get this done, as I had to run through the screen recording at least a few times. The voice was narrated subsequently, and final video created by synchronising the different video and audio tracks created in the process.



As this is a time consuming process, it is quite difficult to find the motivation to do this. If there are at least 200 subscribers on the YouTube channel, I will spend the time to create the next video lesson for free, as I will know that there are enough viewers for these classes to be useful. Please subscribe if you think the lesson is useful for you. I do hope that learning will take the boredom and worries away for as many as possible.

Have a look, and decide if this is good.

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