Milverton Wallace Organizes Hackathons in Great Britain (Video)

Milverton Wallace (@milvy on Twitter) might seem an unlikely candidate to be setting up hackathons in the UK; his background is as a journalist, and he was born a few thousand miles away in Jamaica. Nonetheless, when I met up with him at last month’s AppsWorld in London, he was about to conduct another in a series of hackathons at Google’s London campus. He’s got some interesting things to say about the mechanics and reasons for putting a bunch of programmers (and/or kids who aren’t yet programmers per se) into a room, and giving them a good environment for creativity. He has some harsh words for the UK school system’s approach to computer education (which sounds an awful lot like the U.S. approach in far too many schools), and praise for efforts (like the Raspberry Pi Foundation) to bring programming to British classrooms, both earlier and with more depth. The same ideas should apply world-wide.

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Sigh. Yes, Obama and everyone who's even tangentially related to him or an idea he is attributed to having all suck. They'll be our ruin. We get it. We really do. We know.

What would you have us do about it? How can we help fix things?

Oh, you don't know? Then you're boring. Go away, and take your self-righteous off-topic bullshit with you. We're reading about hackathons here.