Learning coding for coding's sake, or working solely with text-based languages on screen, doesn't often inspire pupils' curiosity and interest.
Learning to code is a fundamentally different way of thinking; looking at algorithms and trying to understand what they do and how they work can be very challenging.
The National 5 computing science course, which has been running for three years now, focuses on the reading, understanding and writing of code, as well as computational thinking and problem-solving.
When students get their heads around the principles, they really engage with the subject, and they enjoy doing the coursework at the end of the year which consolidates their skills in one project.
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