teaching – Ruth Stalker-Firth

April 12, 2026 Musings

Notes, Loops, and Ada predicting AI

Music is shaped by physics – frequency, vibration, ratios – which is described by maths. And, whether that key change happens in Mozart or Coltrane, there’s a predictable structure holding it together.

July 3, 2023 Musings

Wrestling with Spiderman

After a big wrestle, I have finally created a section which includes Spiderman’s eight golden rules of interface design, for

February 8, 2022 Musings

Coding in Minecraft (4): Variables

[0) Tenacity, 1) Chicken rain, 2) Creating classrooms, 3) Coordinates, 4) Variables] This week was all about variables. In the spirit of copying and

January 30, 2022 Musings

Coding in Minecraft (3): Coordinates, confusion and collaboration

[0) Tenacity, 1) Chicken rain, 2) Creating classrooms, 3) Coordinates, 4) Variables] This week’s lesson was all about coordinates, which I love as I

January 17, 2022 Musings

Coding in Minecraft (2): Creating classrooms

My eldest got round the problem by lecturing us on ‘Itler’s Foreign Policy’ and when we weren’t behaving ourselves chased us about and then at one point laughed so hard that she leant on the keyboard and destroyed her classroom which we decided was a sign that it was the end of the lesson.