Professor Turing
Plain-language logic. Pseudocode on the back of a napkin.
Turing teaches your child to think like a problem-solver — breaking any big task into clear steps — long before they touch a screen.
Named after Alan Turing, the father of the computer, who cracked impossible codes by breaking big problems into small, clear steps. So will you.
How Prof Turing teaches.
Most tutors would just show the steps. Watch Prof Turing refuse — and make the answer click instead.
Here are ten shuffled cards, face up. No computer. Describe — out loud, step by step — how you'd put them in order so a six-year-old could follow you.
find the smallest. put it first. repeat?
Perfect. That's an algorithm. Now — how many comparisons did you just do for ten cards? Estimate before you count.
No, it won't do your homework.
Yes, it'll actually help.
If you're the one who'll actually use Prof Turing — here's the deal:
- Ask the dumb questionThere isn't one. No sighing, no judging, no "weren't you listening?"
- Get it wrong, loudlyWrong is just a clue. Try as many times as you need — nobody's counting.
- Your pace, your callRace ahead or take it slow. There's no class to keep up with.
- Nobody's watchingNo marks, no report home. Just you and the problem.
The KS3 computing map — not a year-by-year checklist.
KS3 computing isn't a list ticked off term by term. It's one connected landscape — 6 strands that feed each other. Prof Turing treats all three years as a whole, and lets your child roam it by curiosity: circling back, leaping ahead, following whatever grips them.
- Computational thinking & algorithms
- Decomposing a big problem into steps
- Spotting patterns & abstraction
- Designing & following an algorithm
- Searching (linear & binary)
- Sorting methods compared
- Efficiency — which way is quicker?
- Programming & code
- Sequence, selection & repetition
- Variables & data types
- Conditions (IF) & loops
- Functions & reusing code
- Text-based language (e.g. Python)
- Finding & fixing bugs
- Logic & Boolean reasoning
- True / false thinking
- AND, OR & NOT
- Logic gates & circuits
- Truth tables
- Conditions that combine
- Data representation
- Binary — counting in 1s and 0s
- Binary to denary & back
- How text is stored (characters)
- How images & sound become numbers
- Units of storage (bits to gigabytes)
- Computer systems & networks
- Hardware & software — the parts inside
- How a CPU follows instructions
- Memory & storage
- How the internet connects
- How data travels (packets)
- Digital creativity & safety
- Planning a digital project
- Designing for a real user
- Staying safe & private online
- Spotting scams & misinformation
- Using others' work responsibly
Prof Turing teaches the links between these strands — not six separate boxes to tick. Every strand the national curriculum requires, mapped as one whole; most parents have never seen it laid out like this.
Ideas don't live in one subject.
Prof Turing points out the links most tutors miss:
Coding isn't really about computers — it's about thinking clearly enough that someone (or something) can follow you. Turing teaches the thinking; the screen comes later.
Prof Turing is part of one faculty.
Not eight separate chatbots — one team that shares what it learns about your child, with the Mentor checking how they're really doing before any lesson begins.
Energy-aware — on a Red day, the answer is rest. We watch wellbeing; we're not a mental-health service. Any sign of distress → Childline 0800 1111.
Adapts to your child.
However your child learns best — chatty or quiet, quick or careful, into football or fan-fiction — Prof Turing meets them there, and still won't do the work for them.
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