PPIG 2020 - 31st Annual Workshop 17 - 21 Aug & 30 Nov - 4 Dec 2020, online

Update:

Registration is now open for the 16-20 November session 30 November - 4 December session!

You can register for free via Eventbrite so we can share the virtual meeting links and invite you to the Discord channel we’ll be using for keeping in touch throughout the event.

Programme

(timings are given in GMT / UTC)

Monday, 30th November

16:00 - 18:00 Hold for Doctoral Consortium private session

Tuesday, 1st December

16:00 - 16:30 Welcome to PPIG!
16:30 - 17:30 Paper presentations: CSEd
An Analysis of Student Preferences for Inverted vs Traditional Lecture
Brian Harrington, Mohamed Moustafa, Jingyiran Li, Marzieh Ahmadzadeh and Nick Cheng
Exploring the Coding Behavior of Successful Students in Programming by Employing Neo-Piagetian Theory
Natalie Culligan and Kevin Casey
Developing Testing-First Labs For a Less Intimidating Introductory CS Experience
Brian Harrington and Angela Zavaleta Bernuy
17:30 - 17:50 Doctoral Consortium presentation
A principled approach to the development of drum improvisation skills through interaction with a conversational agent
Noam Lederman
18:00 - 19:00 Virtual Guided Tour

Wednesday, 2nd December

16:00 - 16:20 Doctoral Consortium presentation
Programming “systems” deserve a theory too
Joel Jakubovic
16:20 - 18:00 Panel discussion: Digressions on expression
18:00 - 19:00 Musical Soirée (or Matinée, depending on your location!)
See this page for more info

Thursday, 3rd December

16:00 - 16:40 Paper presentations: Software Engineering
Understanding the Problem of API Usability and Correctness Misalignment
Tao Dong and Elizabeth Churchill
Integrating a Live Programming Role into Games
Steve Tanimoto and Krish Jain
16:40 - 18:00 Board game play session
Undecided? - A board game to study intertemporal choices in software project management
Christoph Becker, Tara Tsang, Rachel Booth, Enning Zhang and Fabian Fagerholm
18:00 - onwards (optional: continued game play)

Friday, 4th December

16:00 - 16:40 Paper discussion
Undecided? - A board game to study intertemporal choices in software project management
Christoph Becker, Tara Tsang, Rachel Booth, Enning Zhang and Fabian Fagerholm
16:40 - 17:40 Panel discussion: On computing and communities
17:40 - 18:00 PPIG Prizes & Close