The Future of Coding in School

In Australia, our national curriculum will require students from year three through to year eight to do visual programming and then text-based programming. The UK has recently started last September a new curriculum that has very similar goals and expectations of teachers. And I believe we've got a short window, let's say three to five years of really getting teachers up to speed and delivering this stuff before people get a bit blase about the whole computing in schools thing. In the long term it would be fantastic to have the entire sequence of courses that could start with you learning the very basics and then going the way through to quite sophisticated programming, computer science and then all of the surrounding technologies as well. We'd