Yeah, I don't usually post an article I've written myself here, since most aren't relevant to Hacker News. But in this case, I think it's important for as many

Yeah, I don't usually post an article I've written myself here, since most aren't relevant to Hacker News. But in this case, I think it's important for as many people to know about the state of the UK education and computer science teaching's terrible quality as possible. We cannot afford to see kids leave school at 16 (or even start university to learn computer science at 18) with no knowledge of how to program or develop anything. What's worse, this isn't even ancient history. I mean, I'm 26 at the moment, and this is literally all I was taught about IT and computer science through high school and sixth form college. We've got a whole generation (or more) of young people who could be getting started in the tech industry but don't anything other than how to type out a few documents in Microsoft Word. I actually suspect it might even be one of the reasons why London doesn't have as many successful startups as the US and Silicon Valley. Because the skillsets necessary to succeed with a web business just aren't here. Either way, it needs to be fixed pronto. Otherwise we will continue to have a situation where most of the UK knows nothing more than how to use Microsoft Office programs and the odd web browser.