How can we improve the way we teach Computing? How can we make the subject more accessible, inclusive, equitable, ethical, professional, interesting and relevant to learners of all ages, backgrounds and motivations? These are the big questions we investigate with our guests on THE REST IS TEACHING: A PODCAST FOR COMPUTING EDUCATION PRACTITIONERS & RESEARCHERS. We talk to authors from our monthly acm.org and sigcse.org journal club at sigcse.cs.manchester.ac.uk to find out more about how their work is changing the way that Computer Science is taught and learnt.

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The Rest is Teaching: All Episodes

The first five episodes are now available. Episodes 6 – 10 will be published during autumn 2025.

  • Episode 5: Steve Draper and Joseph Maguire on what counts as Computing Education Research (CER), DOI:10.59350/4yp18-76n
  • Episode 4: Suzanne Matthews, Tia Newhall and Kevin C. Webb on Diving into Open Interactive Undergraduate Textbook Publishing, DOI:10.59350/shk5w-r7n33
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  • Episode 3: Rosanne English on Graduate Skills for Computing, DOI:10.59350/ybvmn-emw58
  • Episode 2: Quintin Cutts on Modelling Code Comprehension, DOI:10.59350/dvcb8-gvd18
  • Episode 1: Sue Sentance on Computing in Schools across the UK and Ireland, DOI:10.59350/0xs13-ayc66
  • Episode 0: Trailer
Figure 1: Inspired by shows including The Rest is POLITICS, The Rest is FOOTBALL, The Rest is ENTERTAINMENT, The Rest is HISTORY; The Rest is TEACHING is a podcast for Computing Education Practitioners and Researchers. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

If you’d like to be a guest on the show, the first step is to propose (and present) a paper about your practice (or research) in Computing Education at our monthly journal club, see sigcse.cs.manchester.ac.uk/join-us and sigcse.cs.manchester.ac.uk/papers

Acknowledgements

We’d like to thank the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC) who provided funding for this project cphc.ac.uk.

We’d also like to thank David Wilkinson, Tom Hughes, Niall Killeney Taylor, James Mulvany and Laura Shenton for advising, producing, mixing and transcribing the show at podcast.co.

Thanks also to Martin Fenner for weaving the crossref.org metadata magic at rogue-scholar.org so that our episodes and journal club entries are described and identified using orcid.org names and Digital Object Identifiers from doi.org.

Thanks to Paul Nutter, Uli Sattler, Andrew Stewart and many other colleagues for many different kinds of support from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, cs.manchester.ac.uk.

Thanks to Sally Fincher, Steven Bradley and everyone at the UK/USA Association for Computing Machinery (acm.org) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Computer Science Education (CSE) sigcse.org for encouragement, patience and support.

Finally, thanks to Kristin Stephens-Martinez at Duke University for inspiration from the csedpodcast.org and to all our guests and journal club members who are the real superstars of this show that make it possible. We hope you enjoy listening to some of their stories.