conf.researchr.org / Felienne Hermans
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Name:Felienne Hermans
Bio:
Felienne is a professor of Computer Science Education at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She also works as a high-school CS teacher one day a week at Lyceum Kralingen in the Codasium program.
Felienne is the creator of the Hedy programming language, a gradual and multi-lingual programming language designed for teaching.
She is the author of “The Programmer’s Brain”, a book that helps programmers understand how their brain works and how to use it more effectively. In 2021, Felienne was awarded the Dutch Prize for ICT research. She also has a biweekly tech column on BNR, a Dutch radio station.
Felienne blogs at felienne.com
Country:Netherlands
Affiliation:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Personal website: http://www.felienne.com
GitHub: https://github.com/felienne
Contributions
2025
2024
SIGCSE Virtual
SPLASH
- Author of Roles of Variables in the Hedy programming language within the SPLASH-E-track
- SPLASH-E Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- Author of An Observational Study of Undergraduate Teaching Assistants' use of Subgoal Learning Integrated in an Introductory Programming Course within the SPLASH-E-track
- Author of Gender Differences in Story, Game and Visual Adventures in Hedy within the SPLASH-E-track
- SPLASH-E Co-Chair in Program Commitee within the SPLASH-E-track
- SPLASH-E Co-Chair in Steering Committee
- Author of A Word About Programming: Applying a Natural Language Vocabulary Acquisition Model to Programming Education within the SPLASH-E-track
- Author of A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design within the Onward! Essays-track
2023
SPLASH
- Committee Member in Speakers & Panelists within the PLMW-track
- Panelist of Career Panel within the PLMW-track
- Author of A Framework for the Localization of Programming Languages within the SPLASH-E-track
- Keynote Speaker of Creating a learnable and inclusive programming language within the Onward! Papers-track
- Mentor in Mentors within the PLMW-track
2022
ICER
- Session Chair of Lightning Talks (part of Doctoral Consortium)
- Author of (How) should variables and their naming be taught in novice programming education? within the Lightning Talks and Posters-track
- Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair in Organizing Committee within the Doctoral Consortium-track
- Session Chair of Posters (part of Doctoral Consortium)
- Author of Teaching Quality in Programming Education: the Effect of Teachers' Background Characteristics and Self-efficacy within the Research Papers-track
2021
ESEC/FSE
ICER
- Session Chair of Posters (part of Doctoral Consortium)
- Session Chair of Doctoral Consortium Lightning Talks (part of Doctoral Consortium)
- Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair in Organizing Committee within the Doctoral Consortium-track
- Author of Children's Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes on the Gender, Social Skills, and Interests of a Computer Scientist within the Research Papers-track
- Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- Program Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
- Author of Teachers’ Views and Experiences on Teaching Second and Subsequent Programming Languages within the Research Papers-track
ICSE
- Panelist of Are academics working on the right problems? within the Panels-track
- Author of Grading 600+ students: A Case Study on Peer and Self Grading within the JSEET - Joint Track on Software Engineering Education and Training-track
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results-track
International Conference on Program Comprehension
2020
VL/HCC
- Author of Welcome Day 3 within the Research Papers-track
- Program Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- Session Chair of Welcome Day 2 (part of Research Papers)
- Author of Conference Closing within the Research Papers-track
- Program Co-Chair in Program Committee
- Author of Welcome Day 1 within the Research Papers-track
- Author of Welcome Day 2 within the Research Papers-track
- Session Chair of Keynote by Cynthia Solomon (part of Keynotes)
- Session Chair of Paper Awards (part of Research Papers)
- Program Co-Chair in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track