Computer Science News
Year 9 Students get an introduction to programming at Warwick
On Friday, about 22 Year 9 students from six local schools visited the department to get a taster session of programming. The students, most of whom had never done 'real' programming before, were shown how programming is useful in everyday life in everything from video games to mapping disaster zones using mobile phones.
They were a lively group who then worked at an example of programming in the ‘World of Wombats’ - mostly with enthusiasm and lots of questions. Most of them achieved what we hoped for in the short time they had – though they still had several ‘challenges’ to finish. Did we put them off or turn them on? We hope to see some of them again in four and a half years time!
This was part of a full day at the university, organised by the Widening Participation team, in which five other departments held similar events in order to inspire young people to consider a degree at university.
