Historical Perspectives on CS Education
And a few other notes for the CS educator in-progress.
Kevin Lin
CS Educator. Data Scientist. Software Engineer.
On GPS Syndrome
The code is never the focal point.
Microeconomics of the Faculty Job Search
An institution's most important resource is its people.
A Connector Course for Pre-Service CS Teacher Development
Bootstrapping pre-service CS teacher training with CS0.
A Berkeley View of Teaching CS at Scale
The road to 27,000 student enrollments per year, and what lies ahead.
Formative Feedback in Intro CS
Deploying in-class paper quizzes: from 40 to 400 to 1,400.
Teaching Faculty Job Search
A five year, non-traditional path into academia.
Near-Peer Student Mentors
Creating Scalable Learning Experiences in Large Lecture Courses.
Subgoals, Problem Solving Phases, and Sources of Knowledge
A Complex Mangle
The Medium is the Message
Understanding what a computer is, and what it can do.
Teaching to Groups
Advice for leading sections, and other thoughts from shadowing undergrad TAs.
Mindstorms
A review of Papert's seminal work in modern context, 38 years later.
How to Learn CS
High-level learning techniques for how to succeed in CS 1 courses like CS 61A.
Year One
"12 hours a week," you said? I can do that, too.