This is the home page of the Wicksteed family of Barnet.

You can contact the webmaster via the email address "webmaster" at this domain.

Charles is standing as a candidate for the Green Party in the local council elections for the London Borough of Barnet on May 7th 2026, in High Barnet ward. More details

Charles's Java proxy is here now that he has left Logica. It has a minor bug which I have not uploaded yet -- contact "webmaster" at this domain for details.

Some Python scripts and other programs for use at the code club where I help out. The ones that use pygame have been tested on a Raspberry Pi.

• A scribble program using Tkinter for use on a Raspberry Pi.
• A more complicated letter tracing scribble program using pygame.
• A script that plays sound using pygame.
• A puzzle for 24 June 2022 -- try to predict what it will print.
• A computer guesses your number program.
• A ball fountain using pygame.
• A Mandelbrot Set fractal program using pygame.
• A drawing program that shows how to draw circles, rectangles and lines using pygame.
• A Life program (Conway) using pygame.
• A ball fountain to run in CodeSkulptor only.
• A skeleton ball fountain for Scratch. Save the file fountain-scratch.sb3 on your computer then upload it to Scratch to run and modify.
• A few HTML-and-JavaScript attractors to run on a tablet at careers fairs: Eyes Tilt, 2-D Wave, Water Ripples (triangles) and Fluff Tilt. These all rely on sensing the tilt of the device for the best effect. But the eyes do follow the mouse too if you hold the button down, and you can simulate a slope for the wave by typing a small number into the Slope box. Fluff Tilt only works with tilting, on a phone or tablet -- try to rearrange the balls of fluff; it is harder than it looks as they stick together.
• A ball fountain in HTML and JavaScript. Update: new version that runs smoother, but using more CPU, by using CSS transitions, and slightly reworked in the way it handles the data (outstanding bug: unused variable numdivs!).
• Conway's Life for CodeSkulptor: a minimal version, a scribble program and the two combined so you can sketch out the starting pattern for Life.
• A target practice game for CodeSkulptor, ported from one of the Raspberry Pi projects (which uses Trinket).
• A "times tables" grid in Python 3 and HTML and JavaScript.
• The Burning Ship fractal for CodeSkulptor. Be patient while it draws. Adding buttons to do pan and zoom is left as an exercise for the reader.
• Space Talk project for Ordnance Unity Centre Library: https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/space-talk.
• A simulation of an orbiting spacecraft for Scratch. Save the file space-game-5.sb3 on your computer then upload it to Scratch to run and modify.
• Some notes about Desmos.
• My German Flower demo -- tilt your phone to change the shape. Inspired by the picture at https://app.code-it-studio.de/course/step/12/118.
• A simple JavaScript example for Enfield coding club.
• For the coloured triangles demo which I recently showed at the Mount House careers fair, see "Water Ripples (triangles)" above.