When Yassin's not doing parkour, he's studying for a computer-science teaching qualification or volunteering at a daycare center.
Upton's research was also useful when he came to invent Raspberry Pi, a tiny singleboard computer designed to stimulate computer science teaching in schools.
With support from top universities and industry, computer science teaching has become an exciting option for graduates.
This week, the Guardian launched a digital literacy campaign to improve IT and computer science teaching in schools and universities.
Computer science teaching in U.K. schools has been broken for years, having a soft focus on ICT teaching — i.e. showing kids how to use computer software — rather than teaching them how to use computers to create software.
There has never been a better time to train as a computer science teacher, with scholarships, bursaries, several training options, support and mentoring all available as part of the Government's overhaul of computer science teaching.
Blogger Richard Hall gives his views in a lengthy but interesting post, taking issue with the way that in the drive to improve computer science teaching "education is subsumed under the dictates of profitability, competitiveness and the commodity form".
At Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., Mark D. LeBlanc, a professor of computer science, teaches "Computing for Poets".
This website was created for a project in CS201, a class about ethics and computer science taught by Eric Roberts at Stanford University.
Computer science teaches a way of thinking rather than a series of rules to implement.
The computer science taught in colleges still focusses more on theory than on commercial application; the business of teaching practical coding skills has the whiff of trade school.
