UK celebrates release of landmark computer science teaching materials for mobile application design

The first teaching materials for mobile application design in the UK computer science curriculum were officially launched last week. Jeremy Scott, principal teacher of computing at George Heriots School in Edinburgh, has produced the materials on secondment to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in partnership with the British Computing Society and with a grant from Education Scotland. An article in the Times Educational Supplement covered the launch event, praising the Scottish schools real-world approach to computing.