Computing Education Things

In this episode, Kevin Lin (UW) and I take a broader look at the relevance of data structures and algorithms in today’s real-world problems, the role of friction in learning, and the impact of AI at different levels. We also explore online versus in-person teaching in the context of DSA, address common misconceptions, and discuss Kevin’s approach to teaching the subject. Finally, we touch on how h...

In this episode, I spoke with Borja Sotomayor , a Senior Instructional Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago and former Director of the MPCS, about how computer science departments support their teaching activities. We explored topics such as balancing teaching and research priorities, managing large classes, onboarding new faculty, the role of mentorship, ev...

About this episode Danny Yellin worked for IBM for 35 years and managed many large software R&D teams, including IBM Research, Mobile offerings and IBM Cloud. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University and is currently a Faculty Lecturer at Reichman University in Israel. We talked about his proposed curriculum on LLMs for software engineering, how colleges should approach AI in...

Ibrahim Albluwi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Jordan. In this episode, we talk about his new ACM TOCE paper, "Varying Program Input to Assess Code Reading Skills," and the question of how we can evaluate code readability and comprehension in intro CS. In this episode, you'll learn: - The importance of code reading sk...

About this Episode In today’s episode, I sit down with Naaz Sibia, a CS PhD student from University of Toronto, to explore the role of visualization tools in computing education. Naaz helps us understand the concept of visualization for CS Education, shares how visualizations can be applied to learn different themes of computing concepts, and we explore how she has navigated the challenges that fa...

In today’s episode, I sit down with Matthias Hauswirth, Associate Professor at USI (Università della Svizzera italiana), where he leads LuCE, the Lugano Computing Education research lab. Matthias and his team built a great site to learn programming with graphics. It's called PyTamaro, and Matthias is here to tell us about it. In this episode, you'll learn: 00:00 Introduction to PyTamaro and Graphi...