Test tables, manual formatting, what are types and how could this be improved? For most, school is their introduction to programming, normally through Python but what sort of introduction is it if they are stuck making manual testing tables, manually doing PEP8 compliance and why can't an int and str be combined easily? What if there was a way to solve these problems using the tried and true solutions from industry?

A look at modernising and updating secondary digitech using type hinting, automated testing, formatter and other tricks. Looking at existing approaches, feedback from students and teachers and new approaches from across Greater Wellington this talk looks at how digitech can be improved through modern tooling and features to increase learning and maybe get a better grade...