The Rest Is Teaching

Computing is widely taught in schools in the UK and Ireland, but how does the subject vary across primary and secondary education in Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland? We spoke to Sue Sentance, at the University of Cambridge about her paper Computing in School in the UK & Ireland: A Comparative Study co-authored with Diana Kirby, Keith Quille, Elizabeth Cole, Tom Crick and Nicola Looker. This was published in the Proceedings of the UK Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education UKICER. From the abstract:

It’s all very well getting an AI to write your code for you but neither writing code or reading code are the same as understanding code. So what is going on in novices brains when they learn to actually understand the code they are reading and writing? We spoke to Quintin Cutts from the University of Glasgow about his paper co-authored with Maria Kallia on Introducing Modelling and Code Comprehension from the First Days of an Introductory Programming Class in published in CEP ’23: Proceedings of 7th Conference on Computing Education Practice, from the abstract:

What do employers want from Computer Science students and how good are Universities in producing graduates with what employers need? We spoke to Roseanne English at the University of Strathclyde about her paper co-authoed with Alan Hayes Towards Integrated Graduate Skills for UK Computing Science Students published at UKICER. From the abstract:

Welcome to The Rest is Teaching, a podcast for computing education researchers and practitioners. In this podcast we'll meet people who are changing the way we teach Computer Science from school through to University and beyond. What is Computer Science anyway? Why should people learn it and how can we improve the way it is taught? My name is Duncan, I'm your host and we'll meet people who are tackling these important issues as they teach the next generation. What is their teaching practice and research? Why is it important and how can their insights be useful to other people teaching computing in any areas of education and at any level. Listen or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or go to https://uki-sigcse.acm.org. This podcast has been supported by funding from the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing. https://cphc.ac.uk