Sunday, November 11, 2012

BCS - ICT understatement.

The BCS has released their current suggestions for what they want to see in the school ICT curriculm

http://academy.bcs.org/sites/academy.bcs.org/files/Initial%20Draft%20ICT%20POS%2022%20Oct%202012.pdf

I do find this a trifle underwhelming. I would have included some stuff in user interface design. This is for two reasons. 

  1. I Think it's important to get over to the kids that the user interface can make a good algorithm into a pants program. 
  2. You can have a lot of good hands on experience in user interface design without any exceptional skills on the teacher's part.
You could make some very powerful stuff here but they failed to get it. 

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