{"id":1288,"date":"2017-11-15T09:56:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T09:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2017-11-15T10:06:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T10:06:17","slug":"year-in-computing-launches-for-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2017\/11\/15\/year-in-computing-launches-for-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Year in Computing launches for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many students are keen to learn the tech skills that will make them stand out to a graduate employer, or simply want to learn more about computing for their own interests.<\/p>\n<p>The School of Computing offers\u00a0a &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/ug\/year-in-computing.html\">Year in Computing<\/a>&#8216; for all Kent undergraduate students*. This extra year can be taken after stage 2 or the final year of a students&#8217; current\u00a0degree programme.<\/p>\n<p>Students interested in finding out more can come to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/kickstart-lunch-year-in-computing-2017-tickets-31219256637\">kickstart lunch<\/a> on Wednesday 6 December at 12.30 in SW101, Cornwallis South, to find out more.<\/p>\n<p>The Year in Computing will especially be of interest to you if;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you are\u00a0interested in studying computing AND their\u00a0current degree,<\/li>\n<li>you would like to get prepared for a career in tech,<\/li>\n<li>you are interested in exploring the frontiers of their subject and computing,<\/li>\n<li>you want to learn how to be creative with computing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Year in Computing&#8217;s cohort of students have come from a wide range of academic disciplines and have been very positive about learning computing in addition to their original degree.<\/p>\n<p>In anonymous feedback students listed the aspects of the programme they liked, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>when my code actually works<\/li>\n<li>the range of different subjects\/information behind Computing<\/li>\n<li>learning different programming languages<\/li>\n<li>the\u00a0photo examples in lectures<\/li>\n<li>engaging with my lecturers both in and out of classes<\/li>\n<li>I really understand the content and don\u2019t feel stupid for asking questions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*with the exception of students from the School of Computing and School of Psychology<\/p>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many students are keen to learn the tech skills that will make them stand out to a graduate employer, or simply want to learn more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2017\/11\/15\/year-in-computing-launches-for-2018\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":1289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[149977],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}