Felienne Hermans

Author of “The Programmer’s Brain” and associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science

Felienne Hermans

Felienne Hermans

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Biography

Felienne is a professor of Computer Science Education at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She also works as a high-school CS teacher one day a week at Lyceum Kralingen in the Codasium program.

Felienne is the creator of theHedy programming language, and the author of The Programmer’s Brain, a book that helps programmers understand how their brain works and how to use it more effectively. In 2021, Felienne was awarded Dutch Prize for ICT research..

Felienne is a member of the board of I&I (the Dutch association of high-school computer science teachers) and of TC39 (the committee that designs JavaScript). Felienne blogs at felienne.com.

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