Michael Koelling

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Michael Koelling

Michael Kölling is a software developer and professor of computer science at King's College London . Until February 2017 he taught at the School of Computing, University of Kent.

He is the lead developer of the BlueJ and Greenfoot programming environments , both of which are widely used tools for teaching programming.

Kölling grew up in Bremen, studied in Bremen and Sydney (Australia) and currently lives in England.

Books

  • Michael Kölling, Introduction to Programming with Greenfoot: Object-Oriented Programming in Java with Games and Simulations, Pearson Education, August 2009, ISBN 978-0-13-603753-8 .
  • David J. Barnes & Michael Kölling, Objects First with Java: A Practical Introduction using BlueJ, Prentice Hall / Pearson Education, 2008, ISBN 0-13-606086-2 .
  • Bennedsen, Jens; Caspersen, Michael E .; Kölling, Michael (Eds.), Reflections on the Teaching of Programming Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4821. Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-77933-9 .

Awards

  • SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education, 2013
  • National Teaching Fellowship (2008), Higher Education Academy, UK
  • "Best PhD Thesis Award" (2000), The Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia
  • Victorian Pearcey Award (1999), for developing BlueJ.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education . Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  2. ^ National Teaching Fellowship . Retrieved January 12, 2011.
  3. ↑ Best PhD Thesis Award . Retrieved January 12, 2011.
  4. ^ Victorian Pearcey Award . Retrieved January 12, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Kölling, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist, developer of the BlueJ and Greenfoot programming environments
DATE OF BIRTH before 1999