- PhD Student
I'm a second year PhD student at the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre, supervised by Dr. Sue Sentance. I'm interested in exploring how to teach programming to primary/secondary school students, with the hope of helping more pupils to enjoy, engage with, and achieve in computing.
I am always keen to help in any outreach initiative that aims to help more school students enjoy computing. Please email me if you would like to talk about any such programs.
Teaching
- Supervise on the Part 1A "Object-Oriented Programming" course.
- I'm interested in supervising 2024/25 part II projects around computing education. I have some project suggestions here, but I'm happy to supervise any project with the general objective of helping people learn to program.
Publications
- Laurie Gale and Sue Sentance. 2023. Investigating the Attitudes and Emotions of K-12 Students Towards Debugging. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 7, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610969.3611120
- Laurie Gale. 2023. Improving the Teaching and Learning of Debugging in Secondary Schools. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 31, 1. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610969.3611143
