Dr Lynda Thomas BSc, MSc (McMaster), MSc (Southern Illinois), PhD (Wales)

Dr Lynda Thomas

Emeritus Senior Lecturer

Department of Computer Science

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Dr. Thomas was born in Wales and moved to Canada while still in high school. She completed a BSc (Summa cum Laude) and a National Research council supported MSc in pure mathematics at McMaster University in Canada. She then turned to computing, and worked for a few years in industry, before returning to academia and receiving an MSc at Southern Illinois University in the US.

She was a Professor of Computer Science at Carroll University in the US for many years, before completing her PhD in Software Engineering at Aberystwyth University in 1995.

Dr. Thomas was appointed Teaching Fellow at Aberystwyth in 1999 and Senior Lecturer in 2014. Her research interests centre around problem solving and Computer Science education.

Publications

Zander, C, Thomas, L, Moström, JE, McCartney, R & Eckerdal, A 2024, Pseudocode: Scaffolding student object-oriented software designs. in A Mühling & I Jormanainen (eds), Koli Calling '23: Proceedings of the 23rd Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research., 43, Koli Calling, Association for Computing Machinery. 10.1145/3631802.3631846
Zander, C, Thomas, L, Mostrom, JE & Eckerdal, A 2020, Copying Can Be Good: How Students View Imitation as a Tool in Learning to Program. in 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2020 - Proceedings., 9274064, Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE, vol. 2020-October, IEEE Press, 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2020, Uppsala, Sweden, 21 Oct 2020. 10.1109/FIE44824.2020.9274064
Thomas, L, Boustedt, J, Eckerdal, A, McCartney, R, Moström, JE, Sanders, K & Zander, C 2017, 'In the liminal space: Software design as a threshold skill', PESTLHE, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 333-351.
Thomas, L, Zander, C, Loftus, C & Eckerdal, A 2017, Student software designs at the undergraduate midpoint. in ITiCSE '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE, vol. Part F128680, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 34-39, 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2017, Bologna, Italy, 03 Jul 2017. 10.1145/3059009.3059016
McCartney, R, Boustedt, J, Eckerdal, A, Sanders, K, Thomas, L, Moström, JE & Zander, C 2016, 'Why computing students learn on their own: motivation for self-directed learning of computing', ACM Transactions on Computing Education, vol. 16, no. 1, 2. 10.1145/2747008
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