Teaching

Current and Future Teaching

• Fall 2020: EDEC 575 / COMP 598: The Teaching of Computer Science
• Winter 2021: EDEC 646 / EDEC 647 / COMP 766: Sociocultural and Epistemic Understandings of Science / Mathematics / Computer Science

Recent Teaching

• Winter 2020: EDEC 575: Critical Disability Studies for Education
• Winter 2020: EDEM 690: Research Methods: Theory and Practice
• Fall 2019: COMP 202: Foundations of Programming
• Winter 2019: EDEC 646 / EDEC 647 / COMP 766: Sociocultural and Epistemic Understandings of Science / Mathematics / Computer Science
• Fall 2018: EDEC 575 / COMP 598: The Teaching of Computer Science

Published experience reports and teaching demos

• A Numpy-First Approach to Teaching CS1 to Natural Science Students. Elizabeth Patitsas. ITiCSE 2015. (pdf)
• Dr. Horrible’s Fork Bomb: A Lab For Introducing Security Issues in CS2. Elizabeth Patitsas, Daniel Levy. ITiCSE 2013. (pdf)
• The Canterbury QuestionBank: building a repository of multiple-choice CS1 and CS2 questions. Kate Sanders, Marzieh Ahmadzadeh, Tony Clear, Stephen H. Edwards, Mikey Goldweber, Chris Johnson, Raymond Lister, Robert McCartney, Elizabeth Patitsas, Jaime Spacco. ITiCSE 2013. (pdf)
• “Dictionary Wars”: An Inverted, Leaderboard-Driven Project for Learning Dictionary Data Structures. Steve Wolfman, Kuba Karpierz, Joel Kitching, Brendan Shillingford, Elizabeth Patitsas. SIGCSE 2013.
• Teaching CPU Architecture: A New Way to Provide Effective Scaffolding. Elizabeth Patitsas, Vanessa Kroeker, Rachel Jordan, Kimberly Voll. Koli Calling, November 2012. (Poster here)
• Teaching Labs on Pseudorandom Number Generation. Elizabeth Patitsas. ITiCSE, July 2012. (pdf and slides here)

Past Teaching

Instructorships at U of Toronto

• Spring 2015: CSC 120 (Computer Science for the Sciences)
• Spring 2014: CSC 120 (Computer Science for the Sciences)
• Spring 2013: CSC 190 (Computer Algorithms and Data Structures)

Teaching assistantships at U of T

• Spring 2016: CSC 2720 (Systems Thinking for Global Problems).
• Spring 2016: CSC 209 (Software Tools and Systems Programming)
• Fall 2015: Help Centre
• Fall 2014: CSC 209 (Software Tools and Systems Programming)
• Fall 2012: CSC 192 (Data Structures and Algorithms)
• Spring 2012: CSC 258 (Computer Organization)
• Fall 2011: CSC 148 (Introduction to Computer Science)
• Fall 2011: CSC 165 (Mathematical Expression and Reasoning for Computer Science)

Teaching assistantships at UBC

• Summer 2011: CPSC 221 (Basic Algorithms and Data Structures)
• Spring 2011: CPSC 121 (Models of Computation)
• Fall 2010: CPSC 121 (Models of Computation)
• Summer 2010: CPSC 121 (Models of Computation)
• Summer 2010: CPSC 221 (Basic Algorithms and Data Structures)
• Spring 2010: CPSC 121 (Models of Computation)
• Fall 2009: CPSC 111 (Introduction to Computation)
• Spring 2009: CPSC 121 (Models of Computation)
• Fall 2008: CPSC 111 (Introduction to Computation)

Other teaching roles at UBC

• Spring 2011: CPSC 490: CS Education
• Summer 2010: TechTrek Summer Camp