Teaching

Last update: 2022-01-13

Current and Future Teaching

On medical leave for the fall 2021 and winter 2022 terms

Recent Teaching

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