Not technically a school, but I gave a Batman-themed high-level overview of Unicode at Munich's local JavaScript user group two years ago:
http://www.manuel-strehl.de/publications/holy-batman/presentation It was well received, especially for its lighter tone on this perceived dry subject, and for real-world problems, that JS developers faced, and that I addressed in the talk. This is the gist of my response: To successfully introduce students to the concepts behind Unicode, it worked for me to start with problems and WTF-moments and work from there. I also taught university courses some years ago, where I had a similar tactic, which worked quite well, teaching XML to physics undergrads... Cheers, Manuel Am 30.12.2015 um 17:16 schrieb Andre Schappo: > A few months ago I asked a class of 140+ first year Computer Science > programme and Joint programme students - > > Who has heard of Unicode? > > about 20% of the students raised their hands. > > then I quickly followed it with the question > > …and who understands Unicode? > > Every single student whose hand was raised put it down. > > Some of these students were really experienced programmers, having programmed > from an early age. > > Many times over the years I have informally asked students studying in the UK > (1st, 2nd, 3rd year undergrad, MSc, PhD, home students, international > students) what they know of Unicode and the vast majority of the time they > know nothing or next to nothing. > > The fundamental problem, as I see it, is that the teaching of Unicode is not > on the curriculum of Schools, Colleges or Universities in the UK. IMHO, It > should be! > > I do wherever and whenever I can, incorporate Unicode in my teaching e.g. > recently I gave an introductory lecture on Regular Expressions and in my > examples I demonstrated, using Unicode text and patterns and not just ASCII. > > One such example I used was — /^人+鸭人+$/ > > This regex is a reference to Hongkong and the visiting giant floating rubber > duck😄 > > My regex examples also include Emoji and Egyptian Hieroglyphs😄 > > Does anyone on this list teach Unicode at an Educational Establishment, > School, or College or University? > > André Schappo > >
