Sean Devine talks with Ross Penman, a 15 year old programmer from Scotland, about what it's like to learn to program as a kid, opportunities to improve technical education, and the Scottish independence referendum.

Links for this episode:

• @PenmanRoss on Twitter
  
• penman on GitHub
  
• rosspenman.com
  
• On Computing Education - The Windows Movie Maker Problem
  
• Google Map of Scotland
  
• Scottish independence Wikipedia page
  

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