Fixing Over a Decade of Missing Computer Programming Education In the UK

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For around a decade programming was not part of the computer curriculum in the U.K.. Through a lot of hard work from advocates and the industry this will soon change, but a large skills gap still exists. Tim Gurney is just one of many working on closing that gap. His Coding in Schools initiative aims to "work with schools and students and inspire the next generation of computer programmers and software engineers by creating and spearheading schools based programming clubs." I recently sat down with Tim to talk about who's working on the problem and what yet needs to be done. Read below to see what he's doing to change the state of things. http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Fixing+Over+a+Decade+of+Missing+Comput er+Programming+Education+In+the+UK%3A+http%3A%2F%2 Fbit.ly%2F17pAXwN) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstor y%2F13%2F06%2F20%2F0047200%2Ffixing-over-a-decade-of-missing-computer-programming-education-in-the-uk%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook ) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/06/20/0047200/fixing-over-a-decade-of-missing-computer-programming-education-in-the-uk?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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