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#techmums

By goto foundation On April 15, 2013 · Add Comment
We're surrounded by and are increasingly dependent on computer-related technology. It's becoming a cliché that if you come up against a tricky problem with your smartphone or home laptop you ask your teenage daughter to fix it. Those days are gone — or at least going — thanks to #techmums.
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<goto> needs you!

On August 5, 2012 By goto foundation

Over the last few months I’ve been working with various fab people to get The <goto> Foundation up and running. Being an academic, setting up a non-profit organisation is not something that I’ve got a lot of experience with, and that’s my big excuse for why it has taken me such a long [...]

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Guest post: Debbie Stubbington on #gototech

On June 3, 2012 By goto foundation
Take 90 7-9 year olds, 10 professionals in IT and 3 workshops only ever tried with teenagers before, and for many the expectation would have been a recipe for disaster with disengaged kids who had no idea what was going on! However, our Year 3 and 4 children jumped at the chance to experience the wonders of coding and making things happen in ways that they hadn’t experienced before.
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#gototech: The <goto> Foundation’s First Event

On May 30, 2012 By goto foundation

#gototech happened today. It was one of the most awesome and inspiring days of my whole career.

The idea was simple. Inspire kids about computer science. Get them interacting with hardware, software and app design.

So that’s what we did.

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Introducing the <goto> Foundation

On May 25, 2012 By goto foundation

I’ve an exciting announcement! I’m setting up a non-profit organisation to promote computer science :)

I’ve been interested in and excited about computer science since I first studied it at Southwark College in 1989. Taking a degree in computing studies and a PhD in software engineering and spending many [...]

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What was the first language that you programmed in?

On December 21, 2011 By blackse

Last week <goto> asked Facebook users “What was the first language that you programmed in?” Thank you so much to everyone who voted, we’ve had 299 votes and a definite winner: BASIC

Most popular languages/flavours were:

BASIC 163 votes Sinclair BASIC 23 votes Assembler 15 votes [...]
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