End-User Programming
When it's really not about the turtles all the way down.
Kevin Lin
CS Educator. Social/Data/Computer Scientist.
Schedule a meetingCourse Reflections
Online learning in CSE 143: Computer Programming II.
Programming the World
Design principles for the future of computing instruction.
Peer Instruction to POGIL
Improving equity in CS education with guided lecture notes.
Data Structures Course Transformation
Design principles for the intersection of theoretical and practical CS.
Office Hours as a Tool of Oppression
A critical review of power and pedagogy in large-scale office hours.
Towards Robust CS Education
Equitable CS education in higher-ed: a 2-year retrospective on Teaching to Groups.
Contraction Hierarchies
Efficient Real-World Route Searching
Just the Class
A Jekyll template for developing course websites.
You're Spamming the Autograder
A lesson in user-testing, expectations management, and course integration.
Sending Mixed Messages
Do as I say, not as I do.
Historical Perspectives on CS Education
And a few other notes for the CS educator in-progress.
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.