Starting to be a Computer Scientist

Knowing where to start is often the biggest hurdle. Below are some of our favourite links to a few ports of entry to the world of the Computer Science Teacher.

Blog Articles:

Follow Friday: Upskilling Computer Science Published 29th March 2019

Reference Materials:

Lau, William; (2018). Teaching Computing in Secondary Schools: A Practical Handbook , Routledge, Abingdon, UK. (ISBN - 9781138238060)

Courses:

Computer Science Accelerator Course - A converter course for teachers wanting to teach GCSE Computer Science

Organisations:

National Centre for Computer Education

Future Learn -suppliers of courses that feed into the Computer Science Accelerator Course (see above) for more information read the blog article (Link)

Computing At School

Raspberry Pi Foundation

Centre for Computing History

Twitter Accounts and # tag to Follow:

@Cambolc - Our very own twitter sphere place

@WeAreComputing - National Centre for Computing Education's Account

@CompAtSchool - Computing at School's Account

@computermuseum - Centre for Computing History 's account

Suppliers:

PiHut - CB9 based company supplying everything RaspberryPi