Alison Wong

We're thrilled to announce that PyConAU's Education Track will once again feature a dedicated Student Showcase, giving Australian high school students the chance to present their Python projects on the conference stage.

Beginner programmers often struggle to understand and trace program execution, which is worsened by underdeveloped debugging and testing skills. Beginners may also lack confidence or are easily demotivated, which can hinder learning. To assist students in developing these skills and build...

Learning to program can be exceptionally challenging for students. So how can we make learning to program easier for our students? This talk will explore concepts from the literature such as the constructivist theory of education, Bloom’s taxonomy and the worked example effect and discuss how...

Programming education increasingly centres around tools that offer automatic marking of student progress through a set of exercises. Automated marking has become increasingly popular as it allows instructors to provide personalised feedback to students in real-time and is easily scalable to...

Collaborative learning in the classroom has been shown to have a broad range of positive academic effects such as promotion of critical thinking, communication skills and improved learning outcomes. It also brings social and psychological benefits such as development of friendships, social...