Kyle Harms

In May of 2017 I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Under the supervision of Dr. Caitlin L. Kelleher, I investigated leveraging completion problems to help enable middle school to learn computer programming independently. If you would like to know more about my work, checkout my publications or CV. Alternatively, you can also download a copy of the novice programming environment, Looking Glass, and try out my work!

I am an avid user of open source software. I try to contribute back when I have time.

Publications

Full Length Refereed Publications

• Kyle J. Harms, Jason Chen, Caitlin Kelleher. 2016. Distractors in Parsons Problems Decrease Learning Efficiency for Young Novice Programmers, In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER ’16). ACM, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 241-250.
• Kyle J. Harms, Evan Balzuweit, Jason Chen, Caitlin Kelleher. 2016. Learning Programming from Tutorials and Code Puzzles: Children’s Perceptions of Value, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC ’16). IEEE, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• Kyle J. Harms, Noah Rowlett, Caitlin Kelleher. 2015. Enabling Independent Learning of Programming Concepts through Programming Completion Puzzles, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC ’15). IEEE, Atlanta, GA, USA, 271-179.
• Kyle J. Harms, Dennis Cosgrove, Shannon Gray, and Caitlin Kelleher. 2013. Automatically generating tutorials to enable middle school children to learn programming independently. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11-19.

Short Refereed Publications

• Kyle J. Harms, Jordana H. Kerr, Michelle Ichinco, Mark Santolucito, Alexis Chuck, Terian Koscik, Mary Chou, and Caitlin L. Kelleher. 2012. Designing a community to support long-term interest in programming for middle school children. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 304-307.
• Kyle J. Harms, Jordana H. Kerr, and Caitlin L. Kelleher. 2011. Improving learning transfer from stencils-based tutorials. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 157-160.