Best Presentation Award at the 17th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research

The article “Thought Crimes and Profanities whilst Programming” by Juho Leinonen and Arto Hellas received the best presentation award at the 2017 Koli Calling -conference. Koli Calling is an international conference on computing education research that is published in the ACM Digital Library. This year, the conference had almost 80 participants from 19 different countries.

The article and presentation painted a totalitarian view of data management and highlighted the possibilities of what one can do with simple working process data. This aspect of data processing is especially important with the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union. The article and presentation generated a lot of interest and sparked vivid discussions at the conference.