Michael Kölling

Michael Kölling is a software developer and professor of computer science at the School of Computing, University of Kent ( Canterbury, England).

He is the lead developer of programming environments BlueJ and Greenfoot, both much-used tools for teaching programming.

Kölling grew up in Bremen, has in Bremen and Sydney ( Australia) studied and currently lives in England.

  • Michael Kölling, Introduction to Programming with Greenfoot: Object - Oriented Programming in Java with Games and Simulations, Pearson Education, August 2009, ISBN 978-0-13-603753-8.
  • David J. Barnes & Michael Kölling, Objects First with Java: A Practical Introduction using BlueJ, Prentice Hall / Pearson Education, 2008, ISBN 0-13-606086-2.
  • Bennedsen, Jens; Caspersen, Michael E.; Kölling, Michael ( Eds.), Reflections on the Teaching of Programming Series. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 4821 Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-77933-9.

Awards

  • National Teaching Fellowship ( 2008), Higher Education Academy, UK
  • " Best PhD Thesis Award " (2000), The Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia
  • Victorian Pearcey Award ( 1999), for development of BlueJ.
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