[Year 12 SofDev] graduates with coding experience

[Paragreen, Chris J]

Hi Andrew,

I can’t point you toward any statistics better than Gary already has, but we have one (a mature graduate) within the past 5 years. He was employed purely as a Maths teacher, and as soon as I learned he had Computing as a method, I got him involved.

13 years ago, my school employed me, but I don’t count in your sample because Computing wasn’t one of my methods (Maths / Japanese).

In my time as a teacher, my school has never advertised a Computing position, because we’ve never had an allotment that needed to be filled externally. When sitting on interview panels, I do look at IT skills in the mix of the decision making process. I’ve seen many applications from people with programming experience in their background, even though Computing isn’t one of their methods.

Regards,

Chris

From: sofdev <sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> On Behalf Of Andrew Shortell
Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2018 11:59 AM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] graduates with coding experience

Able to teach OOP
Able to create a quicksort from zero
Able to work in pseudo code and translate into at least one language and preferably two

Able to look at students' work and debug without too much difficulty
Good at documentation - internal and external for code
Able to create a decent SRS

Able to do some stuff in SQL for database work
Have a good idea of relational databases etc

Andrew


On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 11:45, Paragreen, Chris J <paragreen.chris.j at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:paragreen.chris.j at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
HI Andrew,

What are your evaluation criteria for “good coding skills”? 😊

Regards,

Chris

From: sofdev <sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au>> On Behalf Of Andrew Shortell
Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2018 11:37 AM
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Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] graduates with coding experience

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?

Do you know any of them personally?

I know that I have not seen a student teacher with computing as a method for over ten years ..... ( I am sure that they exist - actually maybe I am not so sure?)

Andrew

(at Strathmore SC til Christmas)
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