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British Schoolkids To Be Taught Computer Coding

Posted by Soulskill on from the how-to-program-politely dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The UK government has finally decided to do something about the dire state of IT and computer science teaching in the country: it will create a new 'IT-centric' General Certificate of Secondary Education that will cover computational principles, systemic thinking, software development and logic. The current ICT GCSE has been lambasted for boring kids to death with lessons on using Word and Excel, rather than teaching computer programming."

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  1. Finally by Dunbal · · Score: 3, Funny

    They will find a use for all of those BBC micros that have been lying around for 25 years.

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