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Young people are surrounded by interactive media – but they engage with this media primarily as consumers, rather than as producers. In this talk, Brennan described how access to tools and access to community can support a shift from consumption to production, using the Scratch programming language as an extended case study. Based on interviews and observation, she shares five years of young people’s activities with Scratch, in both formal (K‐12 classroom environments) and informal (the Scratch online community) learning environments.

The paper and presentation discussed the need for a Human Centred Creative Technology approach to the design and education of HCI and Media Technology. We briefly describe our current practice what HCI and Media technology design and education (should) look like, being grounded on a vision of the future of area of interest as informal, not‐necessarily goal‐directed and lightweight practice, associated the technology generation of ubiquitous computing, smartphone apps and the internet of things.

Honoring the theory that expertise is a consequence of deliberate practice, we propose the application of automatic assessment of programming exercises to enable instructors to provide adequate practice opportunities for students to start developing expert status in programming. A brief introduction to the theory of assessment serves as foundation for the evaluation of occurrences of automatic assessment reported in the literature.

Teaching a formal method to business students can be quite challenging. For this purpose, the authors have developed RAP, a platform for researchers and students that supports the learning of rule‐based design in a formal method called Ampersand. Students perform design exercises in RAP, and researchers can collect measurements on the student’s behavior. RAP was designed to experiment with measurements of student behavior, for the purpose of studying the didactics of this specific subject.

Holmes is a plagiarism detection tool for Haskell programs. In this paper, we describe Holmes and show that it can detect plagiarism in a substantial corpus (2,122 Haskell submissions spread over 18 different assignments) of Haskell programs submitted by undergraduate students in a undergraduate level functional programming course over a period of ten years, and consider its sensitivity to superficial changes in the source code.

This paper looks at how courses by experts that are available on the internet can be used to enhance student understanding of computer science prior to them entering or during their first year of study at a university. A secondary school exit skill‐set is proposed which is based on existing secondary school curricula and studies that have recently been conducted.

Wolff‐Michael Roth introduced the term ‘Apria’ to refer to the paradox of being a learner: how can we intentionally direct ourselves toward learning something new, when we necessarily do not yet understand – nor are we even able to perceive – the very thing that we seek to know?

Adding testing to Ask‐Elle: An Interactive Functional Programming Tutor: in this demonstration ASK‐ELLE is introduced: a Haskell tutor. ASK‐ELLE supports the incremental development of Haskell programs. ASK‐ELLE checks that a student follows one of the model solutions provided by a teacher.

Computer science education often faces problems related to passive teaching and curricular constraints. These problems distort the students’ perception of computer science and thus lead to lack of interest in the curriculum and in related professions. The main goals of the project reported in this paper are (1) to excite and motivate students in computer science through creative activities, and (2) to introduce the idea of becoming creators of digital media through programming instead of remaining passive learners.

In this paper / presentation the presenters introduced Guided Exploration as an inductive teaching approach. It is based on Minimalism and makes use of the pattern format. Guided Exploration addresses a couple of problems when teaching tool‐related concepts and techniques, like how to address different student learning styles and how to address the issue that most students do not read the provided material as expected before starting to work. It also puts the focus on the concepts to be learned.