Luca Chiodini

About me

Hi! I'm a PhD student in Computer Science Education at USI (Lugano, 🇨🇭). I work at the LuCE research group under the excellent supervision of professor Matthias Hauswirth. I am currently spending a semester abroad at Aalto University (🇫🇮). While I'm fascinated by many CS topics, I have a particular interest in effective education and good teaching. My curriculum, in case you are interested. And my Goodreads profile for a list of books I've read.

Contacts

You can find me on Twitter and GitHub. If you want to get in touch, feel free to write an email to luca@chiodini.org.

Publications

• Luca Chiodini, Igor Moreno Santos, Matthias Hauswirth. Expressions in Java: Essential, Prevalent, Neglected?. SPLASH-E '22. [PDF] Direct PDF
• Luca Chiodini, Matthias Hauswirth. Wrong Answers for Wrong Reasons: The Risks of Ad Hoc Instruments. Koli Calling '21. [PDF] Direct PDF
• Luca Chiodini, Matthias Hauswirth, Andrea Gallidabino. Conceptual Checks for Programming Teachers. EC-TEL '21. [DOI] [PDF]
• Luca Chiodini, Igor Moreno Santos, Andrea Gallidabino, Anya Tafliovich, André L. Santos, Matthias Hauswirth. A Curated Inventory of Programming Language Misconceptions. ITiCSE '21. [PDF] Direct PDF

Current and past activities

• I have been part of the technical team behind the Italian and the International Informatics Olympiad in Teams.
• I organized six editions of ABC, an Olympiad-style online programming contest held each year in May.
• In 2017, I participated in the first Italian training program in cybersecurity for students. I placed second in a local final challenge and competed with a team in the national final, held in Rome, ranking second.
• In 2014, I won a bronze medal at the Italian Olympiad in Informatics.

Technical blog posts

• What the global statement really means in Python
• Tutorial on how to create images and GIFs with Asymptote

Resources

Over the years I've created and shared a number of resources (some of them in Italian), which can be browsed at files.chiodini.org. This is a list of the most valuable ones:

• Slides of my presentations to train high school students competing in Olympiad in Informatics: regional selection (years 2018, 2017, 2016) and school selection (years 2018, 2017).
• My Master's degree thesis, done at LuCE Research Lab to better understand misconceptions when learning to program (related slides).
• My Bachelor's degree thesis, done at Information Retrieval Laboratory to work towards an automatic approach to identify potential binge drinkers on Twitter (related slides).
• My high school thesis, which consisted in developing an automated spelling correction system (related slides).
• Theory of computation class notes.
• Calculus 1 class notes.
• Some solved exercises about signal processing.
• An introductory reading about competitive programming for young students.
• A guide for moving the first steps with JFlex, a lexical analyzer generator.