Monthly Archives: July 2014

There's a big focus in the UK on getting girls programming: the 'industry' is keen to attract talented workers from a wider pool; the BBC are commissioning content specifically aimed at getting teenage girls programming.  The focus seems to be on encouraging secondary-school-age girls to choose the right options to study, but I think the problem is deeper and earlier than that, and something that happened last week made me think I need to do something about it - and urgently. I was in school doing my usual 'enthusiastic computing helper' bit with Year 6 (11-year-olds, about to leave for secondary [...]