What are we up to?
We at Luce are involved in research, teaching, and service related to programming languages and computer science education, in Switzerland and beyond. Find out below what we have been up to.
If you'd like to meet us, come visit us in beautiful Lugano! If you cannot make it to Lugano, you might find us at one of the upcoming events.
| Date | Event | LuCE Involvement |
|---|---|---|
| 12/12/2022 | SPLASH-E '22 | Talk: Expressions in Java: Essential, Prevalent, Neglected? |
| 09/12/2022 | GymInf Verteidigung von Hans Adrian-Schmassmann | Lambda-Kalkül für das Gymnasium |
| 02/11/2022 | Hasler Workshop on the Research Situation in CS Education Research in Switzerland | Workshop Participation |
| 20/10/2022 | SI Seminar by Matthias Hauswirth | Talk: Pitfalls in Teaching Programming |
| 29/09/2022 | SVIA edu-i-day 2022 | Organizing the Swiss Highschool Informatics Teacher Association (SVIA) edu-i-day |
| 09/09/2022 | Crista Lopes Visit | Talk: Exercises in Programming Style |
| 11/08/2022 | Martin Henz Visit | Meeting about Source Academy, SICP, and Programming Education |
| 07/08/2022 | ICER'22 | Co-organizing the first hybrid ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research |
| 17/06/2022 | GymInf Verteidigungen von Dario Biasini und David Eichenberger | lernbaum.ch: Programmierung einer webbasierten Unterrichtsplattform |
| 15/06/2022 | MSDE Defense of Alessandra Vicini | Salesforce extension of the Net Zero Cloud |
| 03/06/2022 | GymInf Verteidigungen von Andreas Stoll und Nino Wilkins | Adaption von 'Bootstrap:Data Science' in Python für den Schweizer Kontext |
| 13/04/2022 | Brown CS Ed Grad Seminar Presentation by Luca Chiodini | Talk: The Risks of Ad Hoc Instruments |
| 09/03/2022 | WGLD March 2022 Online Meeting | Talk: PyTamaro: Teaching Problem Decomposition Using Graphics |
| 19/11/2021 | Koli Calling'21 | Talk: Wrong Answers for Wrong Reasons: The Risks of Ad Hoc Instruments |
| 05/11/2021 | CodeGrade Webinar | Talk: Programming Misconceptions |
| 05/11/2021 | Formula USI 2021 | Co-organizing the "Formula USI" AI-Based Autonomous Car Racing Competition |
| 04/11/2021 | SI Seminar by Andrea Gallidabino | Talk: Do you understand the code you write? 'I hope the TAs won't look at this!' |
| 28/10/2021 | SI Seminar by Igor Moreno Santos | Talk: Towards sound notional machines: a Lambda Calculus crash course |
| 20/09/2021 | EC-TEL'21 | Demo: Conceptual Checks for Programming Teachers |
| 16/08/2021 | ICER'21 | Co-organizing the 2021 virtual edition of ICER on Clowdr |
| 09/08/2021 | GymInf Intensivwoche 2021 | Organization of Training Week for Swiss Highschool Informatics Teachers, Teaching of Course "Programmiersprachenkonzepte" |
| 01/07/2021 | ITiCSE'21 | Talk: A Curated Inventory of Programming Language Misconceptions |
| 07/06/2021 | WGLD June 2021 Online Meeting | Talk: A Notional Machine for Teaching Expressions |
| 06/05/2021 | SI Seminar by Luca Chiodini | Talk: A Curated Inventory of Programming Language Misconceptions |
| 03/12/2020 | SI Seminar by Matthias Hauswirth | Talk: Rainfall and LuCE: The Difficulty of Learning to Program |
| 15/11/2020 | SPLASH'20 Doctoral Consortium | Co-chairing the Doctoral Symposium |
| 03/08/2020 | GymInf Intensivwoche 2020 | Organization of Training Week for Swiss Highschool Informatics Teachers, Teaching of Course "Programmiersprachenkonzepte" |
| 23/07/2020 | Computer Science in K-12: Book Launch | Presenting Chapter on "Operators and Expressions" |
| 15/06/2020 | ITiCSE'20 WG 2 | Capturing and Characterising Notional Machines |
| 26/02/2020 | Mike Barkmin Visit | Visitor talk: "Automatic Evaluation of Tasks for Instantaneous Diagnostics in Computer Science Lessons" |
| 18/01/2020 | Textbook Writing Retreat | Contribute to "Informatik: Programmieren und Robotik" textbook |
| 13/12/2019 | Textbook Writing Retreat | Contribute to "Informatik: Programmieren und Robotik" textbook |
| 22/11/2019 | SIRA 2019 Conference | Represent USI at general assembly of Swiss Informatics Research Association |
| 09/11/2019 | WGLD November 2019 Nice Meeting | Talk: Transfer when learning new languages |
| 25/10/2019 | SPLASH-E '19 | Talk: Experiences in Bridging from Functional to Object-Oriented Programming |
| 24/10/2019 | OOPSLA '19 | Talk: Casting about in the Dark: An Empirical Study of Cast Operations in Java Programs |
| 09/09/2019 | GymInf Program Committee Meeting | Design of GymInf program for future high school informatics teachers |
| 07/07/2019 | Dagstuhl Seminar on Notional Machines and Programming Language Semantics in Education | Collaborate on initiating projects related to notional machines and programming language misconceptions |
| 19/06/2019 | GymInf Program Committee Meeting | Design of GymInf program for future high school informatics teachers |
| 04/02/2019 | WGLD February 2019 Portland Meeting | Talk: Learning to Abstract |
| 14/05/2018 | WGLD May 2018 Antwerp Meeting | Talk: Misconceptions & PL Design |
| 29/08/2017 | WGLD August 2017 Park City Meeting | Talk: Abstraction-Free Programming |