benchin

Heads up that it looks like teachers will still be able to this if they wish. From the article:

> The only exception is when smartphones’ use is assigned by a teacher.

absolutely - if you want to write your games for the terminal https://github.com/JoelOtter/termloop

As a student for the last three years, the rise in student hackathon and any tech-related activity has been nothing short of immense.

I think a big part of that is thanks to students like those behind HackLondon and similar events who work tirelessly (and sleepless-ly) to get people excited and sharing their work.

It's a good time to be a student in tech!

I heard that a third of the graduating CompSci class applied to Entrepreneur First this year?

I don't think the post is arguing that the student tech scene is weak, just fragmented. These are amazing successes - it'd be great to have heard about them.

It would be such a boost for the student scene to hear from such student-born startups and learn/look up to them.

I definitely don't think it's about whether UCL is leading the way or King's.

I think we have the rivalry part pretty much nailed, especially in London ;)

Really eager to see more on the collaboration side - societies working together to support the greater community: traditional CS backgrounds or not.

details are http://www.compsocs.uk/

Fully agree, can safely assume I probably won't hear another ever again

This is a great point - I think the article really fails to acknowledge that there is a heavy technical presence behind this initiative. Amongst the advisors are people like Rohan Silva, Zach Sims, and several CTOs and founders that are extremely well-placed to direct the initiative properly.

It might have been a clumsy performance, but there's a serious need to address the current under-qualification of teachers to teach programming in schools so we should be glad someone, somewhere has found financial and political backing to tackle it.