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place at the Hotel Miramar, up on Bournemouth’s East Cliff overlooking the sea. The Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG) was established in 1987 in order to bring together people from diverse communities in universities and industry to explore common interests in the psychological aspects of programming and in the computational aspects of psychology. The group, which at present numbers approximately 300 world-wide, includes cognitive scientists, psychologists, computer scientists, software engineers, software developers, HCI people et al. This year our focus is the growing importance placed on programming as an essential skill. As reflected in the open availability of online courses, programming is increasingly engaging with a wider audience. Online materials engage with children (Scratch, Tynker.com, Code.org), through to university students, independent adult learners, second and subsequent language learners (CodeAcademy, W3Schools, Lynda.com; MOOCs, e.g. Coursera, edX). There is also a wealth of resources to support the online collaborative programmer (online forums, Stack Overflow, wikis). How does (or should) what we know about the approaches, learning, tools, technologies and the interaction of programmers impact upon the resources for programming online? The invited speakers reflect this theme with Simon Peyton Jones ’ talk on The dream of a lifetime: a