Data Structures Course Transformation
Design principles for the intersection of theoretical and practical CS.
Kevin Lin
CS Educator. Social/Data/Computer Scientist.
Schedule a meetingOffice 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.