Posts about annual Winter School conference: Teaching Programming Across Disciplines

  • Winter School 2025:  Organisers’ Tips and Tricks

    Winter School 2025: Organisers’ Tips and Tricks

    After the success of Edinburgh Winter School 2024, we decided to do it again in 2025. This time, a few things were a bit easier. For example, we started the planning and advertising process in September 2024, giving ourselves a realistic timeline until the event date on 8th January 2025. We also had a tested…

  • Reflections on the  Edinburgh Winter School 2025

    Reflections on the Edinburgh Winter School 2025

    The 2025 Edinburgh Winter School on the topic of Teaching Programming across Disciplines was more than just an event. It was a gathering of 136 participants, 71 of which attended in person and 65 online, who are part of a vibrant community of instructors committed to breaking down barriers in tech education and challenging the…

  • Slides and Recordings for Winter School 2025: Teaching Programming across Disciplines

    Slides and Recordings for Winter School 2025: Teaching Programming across Disciplines

    On This Page: About the Winter School: Online joining instructions were emailed to you if you registered. If you have any urgent questions you can contact pairprogramming@ed.ac.uk – we’ll try to keep an eye on that email during the day. On Wednesday 8th January 2025 we are organising a follow up to our very successful…

  • Winter School 24: Thoughts and graphs from the post-event feedback

    Winter School 24: Thoughts and graphs from the post-event feedback

    Thank you everyone for sharing your feedback about the event with us (❤️ 57 people! ). It was overwhelmingly positive and useful. We had a really great time organising this event, and it was lovely to see that all of you (especially the online participants) also had a great time. We especially appreciate your answers…

  • Reflections from the Edinburgh Winter School 24

    Reflections from the Edinburgh Winter School 24

    Post Written by Dr Kasia Banas, who is a 2023 fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute (www.software.ac.uk) – one of the organisations who sponsored this event. In my day job, I am a data science educator, spending most of my time designing and delivering teaching in a university context. I have an amazing team of…

  • Teaching Programming to Non-Programmers: Edinburgh Winter School 24

    Teaching Programming to Non-Programmers: Edinburgh Winter School 24

    This event took place on January 11th, 2024 at the University of Edinburgh and online. On this page you will find (click to jump there): Photos and Tweets: Follow the twitter thread on here: https://twitter.com/bea_alex All photos taken by organisers on the day: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NRYh85QNZt7bmzeqHr1axi8KL3-khl4E?usp=drive_link Feedback Form: https://forms.office.com/e/fKEundgFEg Sponsors and Partners: This exciting event could not…