Beth Simon
Lecturer with Potential for Security of Employment in
Computer Science and Engineering

University of California, San Diego

NSF Workshop for STEM faculty on active learning with UP

Teaching
 

Fall 2008:
CSE 8A and CSE8AL
CSE 599
Past courses:
CSE3
CSE8A and CSE8AL
CSE141 and CSE141L
CSE599

Research Interests
 

Computer Science Education Research (especially multi-institutional research and instutitional transformaion)

Educational Technology( Ubiquitous Presenter)

Previously, compilers, computer architecture, performance programming, scientific computing.

Selected Recent Publications
  Debugging: Finding, Fixing, and Flailing, A Multi-Institutional Study of Novice Debuggers
Sue Fitzgerald, Gary Lewandowski, Renee McCauley, Laurie Murphy, Beth Simon, Lynda Thomas, Carol Zander. In Journal of Computer Science Education, Special Issue on Debugging by Novice Programmers. Ray Lister guest editor, 18(2) 93-116.

Commonsense Computing: (Episode 4): Debugging
Beth Simon, Dennis Bouvier, Tzu-Yi Chen, Gary Lewandowski, Robert McCartney, Kate Sanders. In Journal of Computer Science Education, Special Issue on Debugging by Novice Programmers. Ray Lister guest editor, 18(2) 117-133.

NoteBlogging: Taking Note Taking Public
Beth Simon, Krista Davis, William G. Griswold, Michael Kelly, Roshni Malani. In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium, March 2008.

Full Publication List By Topic

Debugging
Commonsense Computing
Exam Question/Assessment Studies
Ubiquitous Presenter
Other CS1-related Publications
Other Publications

Education
  Ph.D. Computer Science, 2002.
   University of California, San Diego,
   Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

M.S. Computer Science, 1998.
   University of California, San Diego.

B.S. Computer Science and Spanish, summa cum laude, 1995.
   University of Dayton, Dayton, OH.

   

Contact Information
   bsimon@cs.ucsd.edu
   (858)534-5419
   (858)534-7029 (Fax)

Postal address:
   CSE Dept. 0404
   UCSD
   9500 Gilman Drive
   La Jolla, CA 92093-0404
              

Last modified: ~Jan 2007