Sally Fincher - Studying Programming

Studying Programming

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Sally Fincher and the Computing Education Research Group

Sally Fincher and the Computing Education Research Group 2006

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Studying Programming has been written by the following nine members of the Computing Education Research Group from the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent. It is a work of equal authorship.

David Barnes is a lecturer at the University of Kent and has been teaching programming for nearly 25 years. He has a broad experience of different languages and programming styles and is an author of two textbooks on object-orientation.

Janet Carter teaches Mathematics, Formal Reasoning and Network Analysis to Computer Science students. Before this she taught mathematics and IT at a secondary school. Her research interests include the initial learning of programming and she runs the annual HE Academy ICS one-day conference on the teaching of programming.

Sally Fincher is a senior lecturer in the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent where she leads the Computing Education Research Group (and gets them to write books). She is editor of the journal Computer Science Education (jointly with Renee McCauley).

Aliy Fowler is a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Kent. She has taught many different programming courses a large proportion of which have been to novice programmers. Before becoming a computer scientist she trained as a translator and before that studied art and design.

Ursula Fuller is Dean of Science, Technology and Medical Studies at the University of Kent. She teaches modules on information systems to students at all levels from the first year to postgraduates. Before she became Dean she taught introductory programming to students who were not computing specialists.

Matthew Jadud is a PhD student at the University of Kent. He studies how students learn to program, and in his spare time writes compilers for old, little languages and plays with LEGO robots.

Colin Johnson is a senior lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Kent. He has teaching experience in many different areas in computer science and mathematics. In recent years his teaching has particularly focused on programming and software engineering. He is also actively involved in research, with particular interests in the application of computing to understanding biological and medical problems.

Bob Keim has been in classrooms most of his life. He currently lectures in computing at the University of Kent-Medway. Elsewhere, his students have included American pre-schoolers and graduate students, Japanese elementary pupils and university students, and Croatian businessmen. He holds postgraduate degrees in philosophy, TEFL and Computer Science.

Janet Linington has worked with computers and in education for many years. Currently a lecturer in the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent, she has also worked as a teacher of maths and of computing in secondary schools and for the Computing Service at the University of Cambridge.