Dr. Renée McCauley is a professor of computer science at the College of Charleston. She is currently director of the M.S. program in Computer Science and Information Systems. Her scholarly activities revolve around computer science education, and include teaching, curriculum development and research. Her current research focuses on how students learn to write, debug and comprehend programs, which informs all of her other activities.

Office Hours

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9-10:30 am Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30 am

Contact information

mccauleyr [at] CofC [dot] edu
843-953-3187

Courses - Fall 2009

CSCI 410

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DISC 101

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Current Activities

Treasurer ACM SIGCSE Board, 2007-2010.
Program Committee Member CRA 2010 Biennial Conference at Snowbird.
Organizer (with Sue Fitzgerald) Qualitative Research Methods Workshop, August 2009 & March 2010, supported by NSF DUE CCLI Grant # 0923592.
Chair (with Andrew McGettrick) of the ACM/IEEE-CS Interim Task Force to revise Computing Curricula 2001. See CC2008 published March 2009.
Investigator , The Debugging Research Group (DEBUG). We study how novices learn to program. See us at our 2007 "summer camp" research meeting at Federal Way, WA. At our 2008 "summer camp" research meeting the work continues. Our group publications. Other recent publications and presentations.