This was the biggest ever providing of pc camps by the Institute
Dundalk Institute of Expertise (DkIT) just lately hosted 4 separate Summer time Computing Camps on campus for over 160 native secondary college college students aged 12-17.
This was the biggest ever providing of pc camps by the Institute they usually say these excessive in demand camps are rising quickly in recognition yr on yr, with this yr’s collection of camps being fully booked out.
The camps had been cut up into two totally different choices, one was the brand new iteration of the Institute’s Artistic Camp, the place college students sampled Animation, Modelling, Video games Improvement and extra. The opposite model of camp was a extra conventional tackle computing and programming.
These camps had been run by the Computing Division in DkIT and was staffed by Niall Dowd, Retention & Recruitment Officer together with the help of scholar mentors from quite a lot of the Institute’s computing and inventive programs. The coed mentors allowed a chance for the attendees to study from present DkIT college students on these topics. The purpose of those camps was to offer potential college students with a style of among the computing topics they could wish to examine sooner or later.
These camps had been freed from cost and had been extraordinarily properly attended and DkIT say that is all the way down to the outreach work the Institute undertakes with faculties within the area.
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A spokesperson for DkIT mentioned: “The Computing & Artistic Departments in DkIT are a vibrant hub of innovation the place creativity and expertise unite. The computing trade is flourishing and evolving and intersects all elements of our lives, our work and society. DkIT’s dynamic computing programs have a wonderful status inside the rising IT sector in Eire and the Institute’s programs supply college students the sensible expertise and technological know-how that’s wanted to excel on this thrilling trade.”
Niall Dowd mentioned: “We had been delighted to have the ability to supply these camps to native college students once more this yr. It’s improbable to see the camps are in such excessive demand. We actually take pleasure in assembly the individuals and sharing and creating their enthusiasm for the themes.
“We had been additionally extremely inspired to see so many younger girls attending and having fun with computing, hopefully they’ll proceed their curiosity and produce their abilities into third stage research within the space and finally by way of to trade”.
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perform moveAdOutOfDiv(adSelector, adName, divSelector, divName){
// Transfer adSelector which were positioned within the divSelector (e.g. associated articles, twitter feeds),
if($(divSelector + ” ” + adSelector).size>0){
console.log(“Transferring Advert ” + adSelector + ” (” + adName + “) advert out of div ” + divSelector + ” (” + divName + “).”);
var divSelectorElement = $(divSelector + ” ” + adSelector).mother and father(divSelector);
$(divSelector + ” ” + adSelector).detach().appendTo(divSelectorElement.subsequent(“p”));
}
}
perform moveAdOutOfDivs(adSelector, adName){
moveAdOutOfDiv(adSelector, adName, “.vc_shortcode_article_preview”, “Really useful Article Preview”);
moveAdOutOfDiv(adSelector, adName, “.twitter”, “Twitter Feed”);
moveAdOutOfDiv(adSelector, adName, “.author_email”, “By Line”);
}
perform moveAd(adSelector, adName, targetContentParagraph){
var pCount=0;
var pIndex=0;
var contentParagraphs = 0;
var targetPindex = 0;
var contentMinHeight = 10;
var contentMinLength = 1;
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}
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}
perform moveAd_bk(adSelector, adName, targetContentParagraph){
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var pIndex=0;
var contentParagraphs = 0;
var targetPindex = 0;
var contentMinHeight = 10;
var contentMinLength = 1;
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}
perform styleRelatedArticle(){
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}
perform moveAds(){
console.log(“moveAds: Change all br tags to p.”);
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moveAd(“#content_ad_in_article_desktop”, “Outbrain In Article”, 4);
moveAd(“.teads_ad”, “Teads”, 7);
moveAd(“#mpu_2_in_article”,”mpu_2_in_article”,10);
moveAd(“#mpu_3_in_article”,”mpu_3_in_article”,13);
moveAd(“.teads_ad2”, “Teads”, 16);
moveAd(“#mpu_4_in_article”,”mpu_4_in_article”,19);
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moveAd(“#mpu_6_in_article”,”mpu_6_in_article”,25);
moveAd(“#mpu_7_in_article”,”mpu_7_in_article”,28);
moveAd(“#mpu_8_in_article”,”mpu_8_in_article”,31);
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}
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// 2022-05-27: ACHAM: Repair Flash situation.
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console.log(“Fixing Desktop Audio (vc_flowplayer utilizing Flash so change it to audio)”);
$(“a.vc_flowplayer”).html(‘‘);
}
}
}
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// 2022-05-22: ACHAM: If sponsored article, additionally take away Teads and Seedtag adverts.
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}
console.log(“Article key phrases:” + docKeywords);
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console.log(“Article key phrases comprise sponsor => Transferring Outbrain to finish of article.”);
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$(“#content_ad_in_article_desktop”).detach().insertBefore($(“#article_end”));
$(“#mpu_2_in_article”).take away();
$(“#mpu_3_in_article”).take away();
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$(“#mpu_5_in_article”).take away();
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//$(“#mpu_8_in_article”).detach().insertBefore($(“#article_end”));
console.log(“Article key phrases comprise sponsor => Take away Teads adverts. (banner_banner_unruly_2x1_1)”);
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}, 5000);
console.log(“Article key phrases comprise sponsor => Take away seedtag adverts.”);
$(“#div-gpt-ad-in-image”).take away();
} else if($(“.vc_story_telling”).size) {
console.log(“Transferring Outbrain to finish of article.”);
$(“#story_contact_container”).earlier than(”);
$(“#mpu_1_in_article”).detach().insertBefore($(“.vc_story_telling_link”));
$(“#content_ad_in_article_desktop”).detach().insertBefore($(“.vc_story_telling_link”));
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$(“#mpu_3_in_article”).take away();
$(“#mpu_4_in_article”).take away();
$(“#mpu_5_in_article”).take away();
$(“#mpu_6_in_article”).take away();
$(“#mpu_7_in_article”).take away();
$(“#mpu_8_in_article”).take away();
$(“.teads_ad”).take away();
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//$(“#mpu_2_in_article”).detach().insertBefore($(“.vc_story_telling_link”));
//$(“#mpu_3_in_article”).detach().insertBefore($(“.vc_story_telling_link”));
//$(“#mpu_4_in_article”).detach().insertBefore($(“.vc_story_telling_link”));
//$(“#mpu_5_in_article”).detach().insertBefore($(“.vc_story_telling_link”));
//$(“#mpu_6_in_article”).detach().insertBefore($(“.vc_story_telling_link”));
//$(“#mpu_7_in_article”).detach().insertBefore($(“.vc_story_telling_link”));
//$(“#mpu_8_in_article”).detach().insertBefore($(“.vc_story_telling_link”));
} else if(($(“.container_response”).size)
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||($(‘.titolo_articolo:comprises(“dwell weblog:”)’).size)
||($(‘.titolo_articolo:comprises(“ballot”)’).size)
){
$(“#mpu_1_in_article”).detach().insertBefore($(“#article_end”));
$(“#content_ad_in_article_desktop”).detach().insertBefore($(“#article_end”));
$(“#mpu_2_in_article”).take away();
$(“#mpu_3_in_article”).take away();
$(“#mpu_4_in_article”).take away();
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$(“#mpu_6_in_article”).take away();
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$(“#mpu_8_in_article”).take away();
$(“.teads_ad”).take away();
$(“.teads_ad2”).take away();
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//$(“#mpu_3_in_article”).detach().insertBefore($(“#article_end”));
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//$(“#mpu_6_in_article”).detach().insertBefore($(“#article_end”));
//$(“#mpu_7_in_article”).detach().insertBefore($(“#article_end”));
//$(“#mpu_8_in_article”).detach().insertBefore($(“#article_end”));
} else {
moveAds();
styleRelatedArticle();
//fixDesktopAudio();
}
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console.log(“Resize photographs”);
$(“.container_response .picture img”).every(perform(){
var oldSrc = this.src;
var newSrc = oldSrc.substitute(“resizer/120/”, “resizer/300/”);
console.log(“newSrc = “https://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/+ newSrc);
this.src = newSrc;
$(this).attr(“width”, “300”);
});
}
});
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$(“.vc_article_body_new”).append($(‘#paywall_message’));
$(‘#paywall_message’).css(“show”, “block”);
$(“.testo_articolo”).css(“overflow”, “hidden”);
$(“.testo_articolo”).top(550);
$(“.vc_article_body_new”).css(“overflow”, “hidden”);
$(“.vc_article_body_new”).top(550);
$(perform(){
console.log(“Transferring adverts to paywall message.”);
// Desktop
$(“#content_ad_in_article_placeholder”).detach().appendTo($(“#article_end”));
// Cell
$(“#content_ad_in_article_mobile”).detach().appendTo($(“#article_end”));
$(“#mpu_2_container”).detach().appendTo($(“#article_end”));
$(“#mpu_2_container”).css(“margin-top”,”30px”);
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console.log(“Take away unruly/teads advert.”);
$(‘.banner_banner_unruly_2x1_1’).take away();
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if(isArticleBlocked){
console.log(“Article is blocked.”);
$(“.vc_article_body_new”).append(‘
‘);
$(“.vc_article_body_new”).append($(‘#paywall_dialog’));
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$(“.testo_articolo”).css(“overflow”, “hidden”);
$(“.testo_articolo”).top(550);
$(“.vc_article_body_new”).css(“overflow”, “hidden”);
$(“.vc_article_body_new”).top(550);
$(perform(){
console.log(“Transferring adverts to paywall dialog.”);
// Desktop
$(“#content_ad_in_article_placeholder”).detach().appendTo($(“#article_end”));
// Cell
$(“#content_ad_in_article_mobile”).detach().appendTo($(“#article_end”));
$(“#mpu_2_container”).detach().appendTo($(“#article_end”));
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}
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});
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});
// 2022-09-03: ACHAM: For Paywall Login button, present customary login field at high proper of display screen as a substitute of paywall login field.
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$(“#show_login_button_1”).removeClass(“collapsed”);
}
});
});
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}
}
$(perform(){
showHidePaywall();
})