The CS-Ed Podcast

Mar 02 2025 37 ep. 33 mins 55
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Hosted by Dr. Kristin Stephens-Martinez. This is a podcast where we talk with educators about teaching and equity in computer science.

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Welcome to the CS-Ed podcast

Nov 03 2019 2 mins  
Welcome to the CS-Ed podcast, a podcast where we talk about teaching computer science with computer science educators to learn how they teach and manage their classrooms.

S1xE1: CS50 Tools with David Malan

Dec 22 2019 30 mins  
In this episode, we talk with David Malan from Harvard University, Professor of the Practice of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He teaches Computer Science 50, Harvard University’s largest course. Our conversation focused on CS50 tools. An overview of the tools is in a YouTube video David provided. We spent most of our time talking about help5

S1xE2: Designing Exams with Dan Garcia

Dec 22 2019 38 mins  
In this episode, we talk with Dan Garcia, a teaching professor at UC Berkeley in the EECS Department. He was selected as an ACM Distinguished Educator in 2012 and ACM Distinguished Speaker in 2019. He has won all four of his department’s computer science teaching awards. Our conversation focused on designing exams, which he boiled down to his five-finger rule: (1) material cover

S1xE3: Teaching Students to Debug with Amy Ko

Jan 06 2020 24 mins  
In this episode, we talk with Amy Ko, an Associate Professor at the University of Washington Information School. She directs the Code & Cognition Lab and studies human aspects of programming. Our conversation focused on how to teach students to debug, a skill many of us undoubtedly struggle to get our students to do effectively. Amy suggests: step 1 is to have students articulate

S1xE4: Live Coding with Mark Guzdial

Feb 02 2020 40 mins  
In this episode, we talk with Mark Guzdial, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with a courtesy appointment in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Our conversation focused on live coding, which is programming in front of the class as the students would program. Mark emphasized that the most essential part of live coding is modeling proces

S1xE5: Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) with Armando Fox

Mar 01 2020 38 mins  
In this episode, we talk with Armando Fox, Professor of Computer Science and Faculty Advisor to the MOOCLab at UC Berkeley. With David Patterson, he co-designed and co-taught Berkeley’s first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on “Engineering Software as a Service,” offered through edx.org. It is now a professional certificate in “Agile Development Using Ruby on Rails. Our

S1xE6: Peer Instruction with Colleen Lewis

Apr 05 2020 39 mins  
In this episode, we talk with Colleen Lewis, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College. She specializes in computer science education and diversity issues, as well as is the creator of http://csteachingtips.org/, which we at the CS-Ed Podcast post about often. This conversation was a question and answer with Colleen. Our topics included: peer instruction, how

Season 2 Trailer: Where should we go from here?

Dec 13 2020 1 mins  
We are launching season 2 of The CS-Ed Podcast on January 4th, 2021! The year 2020 has caused so much disruption and calls for change, which led us to make this season's theme "Where should we go from here?" Join us for this season as our host, Kristin Stephens-Martinez, discusses with her guests about pedagogy and inequality in hopes it will give us all an opportunity to reflect r

S2xE1: Supporting Students of Color with Manuel Pérez-Quiñones

Jan 03 2021 42 mins  
In this episode, we talk with Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Our topic is supporting students of color. We discussed why this support matters and the differences between professors versus students and equality versus equity. We also discussed how he changed his grading practices for his remote class. He even shared about chang

S2xE2: What K12 and Higher Ed CS can learn from each other with Jared O'Leary

Jan 17 2021 31 mins  
Our guest today is Jared O’Leary, the Director of Education and Research at BootUp PD. Jared creates computer science curriculum and professional development and is also the creator of the CSK8 podcast. Our topic was what K–12 and higher education computer science education can learn from each other. We discussed Jared’s philosophy and curriculum design process, as well as wh