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Countdown to Computing (Summer 2014)

This edition of the Computing at School newsletter focuses broadly on computing in primary schools, and contains articles covering:

*The new National Curriculum Programme of Study for Computing

*Designing a new computing curriculum in your school; adapting previous curriculum models

*Computing apps in the primary classroom

*Programming using Bigtrak

*After-school code clubs

*Makey Makey

*Designing, making and playing arcade games

*Kodu Kup

*Learning about the internet and the web

*Maths, science and computing with Wolfram Mathematica

*Computing concepts through physical models

*50 years of BASIC

*Language-agnostic programming

*Primary robotics

*Adoptabots – robots for learning coding

*Technocamps and computing GCSE

*Computers in medicine with Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN)

*Big Data

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