[Year 12 SofDev] graduates with coding experience

[Walker, Michael A]

>Hi All

>Can someone please point me to reliable (ha ha) statistics of how many students with a method in computing graduated in the last five years with good coding skills?

>Also how many of them are still working in teaching?

>And can we extend that back to ten years?

Would be interesting to see if any are available, although you would need to compare to other methods as a control group to determine any variance.

>Do you know any of them personally?

Yes, me. I graduated in 2011 with methods in Mathematics and Computer Science. I’ve had two student teachers with Computer Science as a method since then, so they do exist.

Having said that, there were 15 students in my CS Curriculum class across 2 universities (LaTrobe and RMIT), so there aren’t huge quantities like say Maths / Science. In fact, I must admit I was cursing choosing CS as a method compared to Science given there were lots of Maths / Science jobs and zero Maths / CS. However, when one unusually appeared at a Maths / CS ongoing, I was quite pleased when I got it, especially after being told a couple of years later that there wasn’t a very big field of applicants compared to Maths / x positions advertised.

I suspect it’s a little chicken and egg – there are few jobs for someone with a CS method, but that may well be because if you advertise a CS job you get few applicants…

Michael Walker,
Doncaster SC.
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