50 Years of the Austrian Computer SocietyThe Austrian Computer Society (“Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft”, OCG) just celebrated its 50th anniversity. On this occasion a symposium with different talks, panels, and poster sessions was organized from May 13 to 14 in Vienna. I was invited to give a talk about the current state of computer science in Swiss schools, and in particular how programming education can be implemented in a spiral curriculum. 
photo by OCG / Irina Scheitz In the light of recent disruptive events, I spent a significant part of my talk on how programming education may develop in the next years—in particular when the code writing abilities of generative AI gets better and better. Bottom line, I do not think that we should abandon programming education all together, just as we should not abandon calculus simply because “machines are better at it.” At least for this audience, this was a rather uncontroversial take. Happy anniversary, dear OCG! Further Reading
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