Beth Simon
Lecturer with Potential for Security of Employment in
Computer Science and Engineering

University of California, San Diego

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

Education
  Ph.D. Computer Science, 2002.
   University of California, San Diego,
   Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

M.S. Computer Science, 1998.
   University of California, San Diego.

B.S. Computer Science and Spanish, summa cum laude, 1995.
   University of Dayton, Dayton, OH.

   

Contact Information
   bsimon@cs.ucsd.edu
   (858)534-5419
   (858)534-7029 (Fax)

Postal address:
   CSE Dept. 0404
   UCSD
   9500 Gilman Drive
   La Jolla, CA 92093-0404
              

Last modified: ~Jan 2007