Teaching

Fall 2009: CSE 8A and CSE8AL CSE599: Teaching Methods in Computer Science Past courses: CSE3 CSE8A and CSE8AL CSE141 and CSE141L CSE599

Research Interests

Computer Science Education Research (especially multi-institutional research and institutional transformation) Educational Technology( Ubiquitous Presenter) Previously, compilers, computer architecture, performance programming, scientific computing.

Selected Recent Publications

Commonsense Computing (episode 5): Algorithm Efficiency and Balloon Testing Robert McCartney, Dennis Bouvier, Tzu-Yi Chen, Gary Lewandowski, Kate Sanders, Beth Simon and Tammy VanDeGrift. In Fifth International Computing Education Research Workshop, August, 2009. For Me, Programming Is ... Beth Simon, Brian Hanks, Renee McCauley, Briana Morrison, Laurie Murphy and Carol Zander. In Fifth International Computing Education Research Workshop, August, 2009. Novice software developers, all over again Andrew Begel and Beth Simon In Fourth International Computing Education Research Workshop, September, 2008. Full Publication List By Topic Debugging Commonsense Computing Exam Question/Assessment Studies Ubiquitous Presenter Other CS1-related Publications Other Publications