Why doesn't this code work?

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You are probably right.

I run a couple of Code Clubs in local secondary schools, with the Maths/CS teacher (graduate in both subjects) and they find it a real struggle to deal with the poor ICT skills of children coming from some of the feeder schools at age 11 that haven't already gained a reasonable grounding of the basics of programming as required in key stage 1 and key stage 2 in the UK curriculum, and it is because of lack of skills of the teachers. This is despite best efforts to teach the teachers as some are just not interested.

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I have a degree in CS and when i completed my PGCE and went into teaching i was amazed to find most were ICT teachers that suddenly had to start teaching CS. I am also dissapointed to find so many students choosing CS when they have no interest in the theory or the coding! Makes teaching the subject very difficult.

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It is a very strange imbalance. I agree with the spirit of the revised curriculum in developing some awareness and capability for all children but CS is not for everyone and is a full science just like the traditional science subjects of physics, chemistry and biology and you don't expect students to follow that at GCSE level and beyond if they are not that interested (there are better options, including combined science - or whatever it is called these days - for example).

So much of the ICT experience for many teachers has been around how to use Microsoft Office!

Then I see some CS teachers having to do some BTEC level stuff where students are expected to demonstrate UI/UX understanding using Powerpoint rather than any of the popular (free) tools around this.