Steven Whyte is a Computer Studies Teacher at Gracemount High School in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has been teaching a course using LiveCode to his Standard Grade and Higher students, ages 13 -18, with the course fulfilling all requirements needed to teach programming to exam level.
Students responded so well to LiveCode that for the first time, Steven has multiple classes at higher (senior) levels.
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Teaching programming with LiveCode to students ages 13-18
My name is Cyril Pruszko and I teach at one of the top science and technology schools in the state of Maryland, USA. Half of the students have to pass a test and compete to get into our school, the other half are comprehensive students from the surrounding area. I wanted to attract more students to the field of computers and introduce them to the joy and the challenges of programming.
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Taking too long to code? Just invent a new programming language!
In early 2014, we were looking at a roadmap that was so long it would have taken our existing team years to complete. If you work in software, you know that roadmaps only ever grow – especially if you’re supporting customers using a variety of platforms. We knew that we couldn’t go out and hire another 50 developers, so we had to be radically creative. We decided to create a new technology! This technology would make extending LiveCode so easy that we would be able to deliver our roadmap with our existing team and also enable anyone with a passion for LiveCode to add to it and share their work.
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