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On 28 April 2026, the School of Computer Science at St Andrews will be open for its fourth annual Doors Open Day from 11am till 2pm. We…

Date 24 April 2026
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The UKRN and SSI are sponsoring a number of places on Carpentries Instructor Training Workshops. Instructing at workshops is a lot of fun,…

Date 17 April 2026
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We’re running a workshop on 8th and 9th December 2025 covering Shell, Git and Python in Walter Bower House. Organised with OSDS, the…

Date 10 October 2025
Category Workshops

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Photograph of north-west corner of Walter Bower House

Debrief: 17/18 June Workshop

Written in collaboration with Olexandr Konovalov. On 17 and 18 of June 2025 we ran a Software Carpentry workshop covering the Unix Shell, Version Control with Git and Programming with Python. Thanks to OSDS for…

Michael Young

I am an education-focused lecturer in the School of Computer Science, where I focus on teaching introductory programming courses and theoretical topics such as computational complexity. I started my St Andrews career…