New Podcast! 🎧 CS In Schools

CS In Schools are an Australian volunteer organisation trying to tackle a tricky problem: getting secondary school students interested in software.

“In some cases, teachers are getting up in front of a class of kids and they know less than the kids. They’ve got to accelerate through this process of learning to become experts, over a 2-term period in something that is very foreign to them.”

It takes a lot of courage to teach coding skills to kids. Toan Huynh and Hugh Williams explained to us how they’re arming teachers with a modern curriculum to inspire their students (Anvil lessons feature, of course!)

Listen along: CS In Schools

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31:25 Meredydd: “there is an awful lot of Stockholm syndrome in this industry”

That’s a beautiful way of describing it!

I lived my qb45, vb3 and vb6 years drowning in shame, afraid to even mention it when talking to the real programmers. Before qb45 I was working in C and I was a real programmer, then I switched to qb45 and I couldn’t be serious, I was just playing around.

Now I’m old mature and I’m not afraid to say in public I proudly use Anvil :partying_face:

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