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.

Pseudocode: Scaffolding student object-oriented software designs. / Zander, Carol; Thomas, Lynda; Moström, Jan Erik et al.
Koli Calling '23: Proceedings of the 23rd Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research. ed. / Andreas Mühling; Ilkka Jormanainen. Association for Computing Machinery, 2024. 43 (Koli Calling).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding (ISBN)

Copying Can Be Good: How Students View Imitation as a Tool in Learning to Program. / Zander, Carol; Thomas, Lynda; Mostrom, Jan Erik et al.
2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2020 - Proceedings. IEEE Press, 2020. 9274064 (Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE; Vol. 2020-October).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding (ISBN)

In the liminal space: Software design as a threshold skill. / Thomas, Lynda; Boustedt, Jonas; Eckerdal, Anna et al.
In: PESTLHE, Vol. 12, No. 2, 04.2017, p. 333-351.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Student software designs at the undergraduate midpoint. / Thomas, Lynda; Zander, Carol; Loftus, Chris et al.
ITiCSE '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 34-39 (Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE; Vol. Part F128680).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding (ISBN)

Why computing students learn on their own: motivation for self-directed learning of computing. / McCartney, Robert; Boustedt, Jonas; Eckerdal, Anna et al.
In: ACM Transactions on Computing Education, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2, 26.02.2016.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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