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Seismology

The school were the recipients of a Raspberry Shake, courtesy of United Downs Deep Geothermal Project.

Raspberry Shake Station View: https://raspberryshake.net/stationview/

Resources from IRIS including event plots: http://ds.iris.edu/spud/

IRIS event plot query: http://ds.iris.edu/spud/eventplot

Texas Educational Seismic Project: https://txesp.wordpress.com/

Denton Seismo: https://www.dentonseismo.co.uk/

Perdue University: https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~braile/edumod/epiplot/epiplot.htm

Anaconda seismic resources: http://www.seismo-live.org/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329017203_Seismo-Live_An_educational_online_library_of_Jupyter_notebooks_for_seismology

Manual of seismological observatory practice: http://nmsop.gfz-potsdam.de/

Online removal of instrument responses for data archived with IRS, but not the Raspberry Shakes: https://service.iris.edu/irisws/timeseries/docs/1/builder/

Python

Python is the third most popular programming language in 2020 and it is also relatively easy to learn for an English speaker, because the syntax is very similar to English.

Programming "cheat sheets" for various languages: http://overapi.com/

Learn Python the Hard Way online book: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/

Raspberry Pi

The single most important site for anyone using a Raspberry Pi is the Raspberry Pi foundation's own web site.

Raspberry Pi foundation: http://www.raspberrypi.org/

The Pi Hut, good customer support, schools discount: http://thepihut.com/

Raspberry Pi web site, a great source of information: http://www.raspberrypi.org/

Java for ARM processors: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-arm-downloads-2187472.html

OpenBuilds Part Store: http://openbuildspartstore.com/

Timelapse rail project: http://www.davidhunt.ie/motorised-time-lapse-rail-with-raspberry-pi/

Piano Hat: http://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pianohat

Weather

I have a Watson Weather Station W-8681-MKII connected to a Raspberry Pi, which acts as a data store and uploads observations to various web sites. See this separate page.

Mathematica

Wolfram Documentation, especially Symbolic and Numeric Computation: http://reference.wolfram.com/language/

MathematicaStackExchange: http://mathematica.stackexchange.com

Wolfram Demonstrations Project: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com

Lego Mindstorms

Using an RCX and IR tower with a Raspberry Pi: http://minordiscoveries.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/using-nqc-on-a-raspberry-pi-to-program-a-lego-mindstorms-rcx-brick/

HTML

w3schools is a great self-paced learning tool. I like the way it is subdivided into sections that are easy to use as a reference, the "try it yourself" editor and console (a bit like the one on codecademy) and the code snippets that you can lift out of the tutorials and use in your own web pages.

w3schools: http://www.w3schools.com/html/

Codecademy: http://www.codecademy.com/learn

Greenfoot for teaching and learning Java Programming

Joy of Code - mik's blog: http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/mik/category/joy-of-code/page/2/

Greenfoot.org - the main website for the Greenfoot project: http://www.greenfoot.org/door

Greenroom - The Greenfoot Educators Community: http://greenroom.greenfoot.org/door

The Joy of Code videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6mu-GC194U&list=PL280AD6FCCFCDDAC5

Installing Greenfoot on the Pi: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=29928

Scratch

Code club, a great initiative and fantastic resources: https://www.codeclub.org.uk/

Kodu

Kodu game lab: http://www.kodugamelab.com/

VBA

I have been programming using VBA in Excel for over 15 years and dip in to reference pages when I need to, but don't have any particular recommendation, except Google!

Secondary School computer science courses

AQA GCSE: http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/ict-and-computer-science/gcse/computer-science-4512

OCR GCSE: http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/gcse-computing-j275-from-2012/

Cambridge GCSE Computing online: http://www.cambridgegcsecomputing.org/

Edexcel GCSE: http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse-2013/computer-science/Pages/default.aspx

WJEC GCSE: http://www.wjec.co.uk/qualifications/computer-science/

AQA Funtional Skills ICT: http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/ict-and-computer-science/functional-skills/functional-ict-4527-4528

CIE iGCSE: http://www.cie.org.uk/images/167128-2016-syllabus.pdf

BBC Bitesize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/z34k7ty

Useful software resources

Cross-platform

Arachnophilia for web development: http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.php