Prof. Kristin Stephens-Martinez

I attended ITiCSE this year. One of my former undergraduate students, Anshul Shah, presented his paper on our CS1 reviewer app . Attending was an opportunity to iterate on how I approach online conferences and try out ideas from my last reflection when I attended SIGCSE 2021 . One way to describe my approach to ITiCSE is less like prior online conferences and more like how I approach in-person conferences . [Also posted on  medium .] How I decided what to do Step 1 : Look at the proceedings two-ish weeks before and note all of the things I find interesting.  — I did this based only on the titles. The abstracts hadn’t come out at the time. Step 2 : Go through the list a second time and mark which things I will actually attend.  — Talks were live, and the videos would not be available until after the conference. I often had more papers I was interested in than I had time for, so I needed to prioritize. I purposely separated this step from Step 1 because I didn’t want to get bo...

 ITiCSE 2021 is here! And this year, I’ve got a paper with Anshul Shah , Jonathan Liu , and Susan Rodger . The first two were undergraduate students. They are now both graduated and going on to grad school to study computer science education! Anshul is going to UCSD and Jonathan to Chicago . [Also posted on  medium .] The paper is “ The CS1 Reviewer App: Choose Your Own Adventure or Choose for Me! ” and is a tools paper. The paper introduces an app that Anshul originally developed with a partner in their Fall 2019 database class. We’ve been developing the app ever since with help from other undergraduate students through Duke’s summer CS+ program . Jonathan started helping last Fall. Below is a screenshot, the abstract, and a discussion of changes from the last six months since we submitted the paper. You can also check out the tool yourself at https://cs-reviewer.cs.duke.edu/ Abstract We present the CS1 Reviewer App — an online tool for an introductory Python course that all...