“A Choice To Compute” at CAS Essex Hub, Sandon School, Chelmsford
It was a small but very positive group at the Computing At School event and very good to see several ICT teachers willing to teach children computer programming.
It was also attended by my friend and colleague from the National Museum of Computing, Peter Onion of the Elliot 803 Emulator fame, and is probably one of the best and dedicated computer programmers I know.
I discussed what I thought were some of the issues facing the decline of programmers, and the positive actions I am taking to make changes to it, in my “Computing Club” pilot schemes I am running in Suffolk at the moment, and although it is video game based it has had a high level of success already and has created several new programmers who have gone on to do other things besides games.
There were lots of good issues raised by everyone who attended, and hopefully there is now a lot more awareness of resources available to teach computer programming in schools, but certainly there is a lot more work to be done.
Computing At School has just published their first newsletter here.
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