Mark Hay

Scottish Secondary Computing teacher. Google Educator | Apple Teacher | All of my opinions are my own!

[Mark Hay @MarkHay79]

Teacher of Technological Education - Robert Gordon's College (Aberdeen)

Hi folks, appreciate if you could share amongst any friends/colleagues who may be looking to join a great school. Closing Date: 5th May 2026

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[Mark Hay @MarkHay79]

@stacshq Or https://t.co/QVZppt7HMi SQLite db browser.

[Toni Scullion @ScullionToni]

Fancy being head of CS department @HSofG? Brilliant opportunity.

#TeachComputingScience

[Mark Hay @MarkHay79]

@AberdeenCC hi there. Our recycling was missed last collection. We booked another collection last Thursday (case FS-Case-604764979 Missed Bin Collection) but still no collection as yet. Can you help?

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Our team getting ready for their 1st match at Lego League. #FIRSTLEGOLeagueChallenge @robertgordons

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I'm team #GIF. How do you pronounce it?

[Mark Hay @MarkHay79]

@CompSciAdams Same here atm we’re using sql db browser and Pycharm

[northvu @northvu]

A new ddd scenario from this evening’s tutorial. Starting very soon.

[Mark Hay @MarkHay79]

@KevRodger @CompSciAdams has been my on and off offline Python editor for a while, was only not used whilst I was invested in Replit.

[Mark Hay @MarkHay79]

@CompSciAdams pycharm does have en education part where you can build lesson tutorials etc but haven't got into that am going to keep as separate Google docs

[Mark Hay @MarkHay79]

@CompSciAdams Was just going to stick with notepad++ for web at N5 tbh db browser has the ability to browse the tables that replit didnt have (and uses SQLite) Thonny has pretty good preakpoints and expression evaluation. Pycharm has a nice clean UI and watchpoints/breakpoints work well

[Mark Hay @MarkHay79]

@ComputingRGU The next session is Monday (8th Jan) on SDD - standard algorithms and debugging and testing @stacshq

[Mark Hay @MarkHay79]

@MattersOfCS Thanks Peter, always great to build up a library, might see if mines need tweaked a little, was desperate to keep them on one page. Hope you are well!

[Mark Hay @MarkHay79]

@MrdouglasCS @CompSciScot Trouble is only having 1 Higher course. As soon as we open the can of worms that X is a good topic and Y is a topic how do we fit it into 1 course? Love the regular updates but too much of a good thing would be a bad thing for workload. Also staff training to consider.

[Scottish Teachers Advancing Computing Science @stacshq]

We are back again for the second SDD session for this years upskill course is starting with 4 more amazing hosts! Lucinda, Conor, @MarkHay79 and @tonyharkins

#UpSkillWithSTACS #ByTeachersForTeachers

[Mark Hay @MarkHay79]

@mcwhim @csteachian Thanks for the useful evaluations tonight!

[Mark Hay @MarkHay79]

@LilliH99 @eslweb @Replit Pycharm is on my list to get installed too. Used it previously but never the education aspect

[Mark Hay @MarkHay79]

@rarthurtweets @Replit @CompSciScot @stacshq @RaspberryPi_org Yeah have seen it’s in beta, thanks.

[Mark Hay @MarkHay79]

I’m sure a lot of other Computing teachers in Scotland now looking at alternatives now that @Replit are deprecating Edu Teams as of tomorrow. Made such a great product and now the rug being pulled out midway through the academic year… @CompSciScot @stacshq