Hey everyone,

I’m Leon. This September, I’m running a software development programme for a cohort of 16-18 year old T-Level students at a specialist digital engineering college in London.

They are learning modern web development (JS, DOM, CSS, JSON routing, security, design patterns), but I want to train them using the strict, resource-conscious engineering ethos of the 8 and 16-bit eras -moving away from modern framework bloat and corporate, multiple-choice certifications.

The programme is run on my platform, called THINK; I’m spending the summer setting up the tools to facilitate the programme. Instead of automated robot grading, I want the students' code to be audited by real people who actually know what optimised code looks like.

The goal is to build a network of veteran peer-reviewers. Long-term, I want to take this data to the Commodore team as a pitch for an official community-vetted Commodore Certified Developer standard - an open anti-corporate badge that carries real weight for modern tech jobs.

If you have some spare time and want to act as a code auditor when the term starts (or give feedback on the reviewer dashboard as I build it over the summer), drop a comment or DM me.

Cheers,
Leon

Last edited by 68000 on 10-Jul-2026 at 08:58 PM.

@68000

If you want to teach student something that would run on small platform, you may teach them something in on an embedded system.

Arduino comes into my mind.

@OneTimer1

Future projects will cover other languages and hardware. I'm working on a version of Blitz Basic that can be run from a web browser - with the aim being to allow students to compile this on a Amiga.

For this project, it's specifically for the web - but would be good to encourage efficient standards for the code.