Bernie Fishpool is a consultant subject matter expert and author of vocational computing and IT texts and learning resources, who taught programming, systems analysis, project management and personal skills development in post-16 education for more than 20 years. On leaving teaching in 2007, she worked for Edexcel as a curriculum development manager. Bernie led the development of the AQA Tech-levels in IT between 2014 and 2016 as a sector strategist for IT and computing, and has written many Level 2 and Level 3 BTEC IT units for Pearson Edexcel over the years. More recently Bernie was a member of the team that developed the BCS Trailblazer Apprenticeships, and she has recently worked on the BCS Essential Digital Skills Qualification (EDSQ). She continues to develop teaching and learning resources.

Mark Fishpool has taught various computing subjects from Year 7 to degree level in schools and colleges since the age of 19. He has lead-written nationally recognised BTEC and AQA computing qualifications and was head of school for computing and Centre of Vocational Excellence manager at Gloucestershire College for over seven successful years before returning to the commercial sector, specialising as a senior full-stack developer. He has recently come back to training and education as senior technical learning consultant (cyber) at QA Ltd, specialising in Python, C and Linux. Somehow in the middle of this 30-year career he’s also written 11 books, mostly with his wife, Bernie.