Matthew Curinga

My recent research looks at the politics of software design. As an instructional designer and programmer, I’ve been building PyTutor, a web platform for studying computer programming (in python) which incorporates aspects of wikis, version control, and test suites for authoring questions; with social networks for peer tutoring. As an educator I have been focused on teaching computer science as a critical media literacy: at the graduate and undergraduate level, and recently as co-founder of Zero Day Camp: a non-profit that teaches computing; and creates Free Open Source Software, tools, and curricula for (critical) computer science education.

Research Interests: social media, software affordance theory, technology and culture, philosophy of education