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Are You Ready for the Coming Revolution?
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Summary
Russel Winder discusses some of the important issues surrounding the government’s push for programming in UK schools, and how the way it’s been handled has left a lot to be desired.
Bio
Russel Winder is an ex-theoretical physicist, ex-UNIX system programmer, ex-academic. Now an independent consultant, analyst, author, expert witness and trainer. Also doing startups. Interested in all things parallel and concurrent. And build. Actively involved with Groovy, GPars, GroovyFX, SCons, Me TV, and GStreamer. Also Gradle, Ceylon, Kotlin, D, Go, and bit of Rust. And lots of Python.
About the conference
It was another really fantastic conference this year which saw 400 people pass through the doors - our biggest turnout so far with fully booked workshops and a great atmosphere over the whole three days. Brought to us by Naked Element Ltd., the next conference is already being planned with the addition of a dedicated schools day.
Jun 18, 2017