Category Archives: Programming skills

Development Projects – Log : 15/08/2019

Posted on August 15, 2019 by nigel borrington

SQL based database management system Over the last two week or so I have been working on the following areas: Training in the areas of (postgresql, Python with (tkinter and psycopy2) – python modules ) using UDEMY, I have become … Continue reading →

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Study and development plans 2019 ……

Posted on June 25, 2019 by nigel borrington

Computer blog – study and project development areas, June 2019 This post is a very personal one and in many ways just a note to myself ! It details all areas involved in my study and development projects from the … Continue reading →

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New development projects for 2019 – SQL Data-base management, Psion Series 5 second life, Element 14 PiDesktop

Posted on January 26, 2018 by nigel borrington

I have three news Development projects and Study areas that I have been working on in January 2018 as follows: Asus Tinker Board SQL Data base server. Almost all computer based projects including those in the Makers community at some … Continue reading →

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Linux OS and GPIO managment

Posted on May 5, 2016 by nigel borrington

Please note that this post follows on from : GPIO Part 1 :ARM Development boards and their low-level coding Data-sheets This post is part 2 of A Look at how development boards such as the Raspberry PI allow a developer … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi Sense Hat, Locating and using the sense-hat.py module

Posted on April 1, 2016 by nigel borrington

Raspberry pi sense hat modules In my last post I introduced the Raspberry Pi sense hat, a hardware module for the Raspberry pi development board that contains the following hardware. 8×8 RGB LED matrix, five-button joystick, 40 pin pass-through GPIO … Continue reading →

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Hexadecimal file editors and viewers

Posted on June 25, 2015 by nigel borrington

In my last post I talked a little about the numeric base systems of (Binary, Octal, Hex-decimal and Decimal) relating them to both computer machine level instruction code and application data. However these mathematical concepts are a little hard to … Continue reading →

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Numeric base systems of (Binary, Octal, Hex-decimal and Decimal)

Posted on June 23, 2015 by nigel borrington

Computer related numeric systems and their written representation In My last post I talked a little about the way computers see both their pre-defined commands in the form of machine code instructions that are grouped into applications by a programmer. … Continue reading →

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ARM (SOC – system on a chip) CPU’s , Programming from the ground up …….

Posted on June 18, 2015 by nigel borrington

Having spent the last three weeks deep in programming language study, reclaiming some C++ and Assembly language skills, I am more than overdue a post here 🙂 These three weeks however have prepared me very well to start sharing some … Continue reading →

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Pascal a programming language , its history and some example code.

Posted on April 30, 2015 by nigel borrington

Pascal is just one of many programming languages that you can select in order to learn programming skills and then for developing professional applications. This Wiki page details much about the language of Pascal , Pascal was named in honour … Continue reading →

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Learning application programming ( Action related V Object related)

Posted on March 18, 2015 by nigel borrington

Sample Object Orientated code Why is learning to code these days so hard ? If your just starting out trying to learn how to write application code it will not take you long before you hit one of the biggest … Continue reading →

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