Daniel Zingaro is an associate professor at the

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. His main areas of research are in evaluating Computer science education and online learning. He has co-authored over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences; and also authored a textbook, "Invariants: a Generative Approach to Programming. Born visually impaired, Zingaro completed B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from

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. He then received a Ph.D. from

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(OISE) at the University of Toronto in Computer Science Education. His master's thesis was about formalizing and proving properties of parsers. His doctoral thesis was titled " Evaluating Peer Instruction in First-year University Computer Science Courses". Daniel Zingaro designed accessible computer games and published work in Computers & Education, International Computing Education Research (ICER) conference, Computer Science Education, British Journal of Educational Technology, and Transactions on Computing Education.

Selected publications

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Awards

* ICER Best Paper Award, 2014 *

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2016 best paper award * JOLT 2012 best paper award

References

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