Paul Dempster
Professor
School of Computer Science
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
China
Biography
After graduating from The University of Glasgow, Paul came to China to study Mandarin language at Fudan University, Shanghai. He then moved to Ningbo to assist in the start-up of the new Division of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham Ningbo. The main focus of his first 4 years here was the teaching of programming to entry-level undergraduates, and later also developing and teaching content for foundation-level students. After this he returned to the UK for 3 years to focus on his PhD work involving the use of learner analytics in online, computer-based, communal language learning. In 2013 Paul returned to the University of Nottingham Ningbo to resume teaching in the School of Computer Science. Paul’s research interests cover a number of areas, including learner analytics, language learning, teaching of programming, implementation of programming languages, player’s mental modelling of games, and the “demoscene”. He is also actively involved in raising a basic awareness of programming in the entire student body and runs the “Campus of Code” project at UNNC.
Research Interest
Pedagogy of programming language teaching Programming language design Learning and gaming analytics The ‘demoscene’
Publications
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Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Harmony Search Algorithms, Advances in Intelligent systems and Computing series, vol 382, pp. 83-94.
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Woodward, J., Evans, A., Dempster P. (2008), “A Syntactic Justification for Occam's razorâ€, 2008 Midwest, A New Kind of Science Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 2008.
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Dempster, P. (2009), “Skill-mirroring input methods†in Proceedings of Computer Games & Allied Technology 09, Singapore, 2009.
