‘No, I CAN’T write code myself,’ admits woman in charge of teaching our kids to code

The government’s “Year Of Code” scheme to bring computer programming into schools for children as young as five has degenerated into a political bunfight.

“The word ‘coding’ has been hijacked and abused by politicians and media who don’t understand stuff,” the Raspberry Pi foundation’s director of educational development and a former teacher, Clive Beale, tweeted at the weekend.