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Michael Ball

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

35

Venues

2

Active years

2014–2026

Best venue rank

A

Where they publish

Papers

35 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026SIGCSEThe Beauty and Joy Computing: CS Curricula That Scales from Middle School to University.Michael Ball, Dan Garcia, Mary Fries, Marnie Hill, Della Dastur, Lauren Mock
2026SIGCSEA Community of Snap! Educators - New Features and Tools for Teaching AI.Michael Ball, Jens Mnig, Dan Garcia, Victoria Phelps, Yuan Garcia, Jadga Huegle
2026SIGCSEA Hands-on and Interactive Introduction to the Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence using Snap!Dan Garcia, Jens Mnig, Jadga Hgle, Mary Fries, Jane M. Kang, Delnavaz Dastur, Victoria Phelps, Bryant Bettencourt, Michael Ball, Lauren Mock
2026SIGCSETeaching Faculty Careers without a PhD: A Mentoring Community.Adam Blank, Michael Ball, Travis McGaha, Suraj Rampure, Yesenia Velasco, Kendra Walther
2025SIGCSEA New Class of Teaching-Track Faculty: No Ph.D. Required.Michael Ball, Suraj Rampure, Kevin Lin
2025SIGCSESnap! 10 - From Blocks to AI: Empowering Learning with Custom Primitives and Machine Learning.Victoria Phelps, Michael Ball, Dan Garcia, Yuan Garcia
2024SIGCSESnap! 9- Support for Teachers and Programming with Data.Michael Ball, Daniel D. Garcia, Victoria Phelps, Yuan Garcia
2024SIGCSEStudent Mission Control: Integrating Space Data Exploration into Data and Computer Science Education.Dan Garcia, Josh Hug, Anirudhan Badrinath, Michael Ball, Lauren Mock
2024SIGCSEIgniting Curiosity with BJC Sparks: A Transformative Curriculum for Middle and High School Computer Science.Daniel D. Garcia, Mary Fries, Michael Ball, Lauren Mock
2023SIGCSETen Years of Snap! - Where Should We Go Next?Michael Ball, Dan Garcia, Yuan Garcia
2023SIGCSESnap! 8 - Smart Script Pics and Metaprogramming for All!Michael Ball, Dan Garcia, Yuan Garcia
2023SIGCSEBJC Sparks: A New Functional-First Middle School CS Curriculum.Dan Garcia, Mary Fries, Michael Ball, Pamela Fox, Deanna Gelosi, Lauren Mock, Della Dastur, Dave Briccetti, Bob Kahn
2023SIGCSEA New Class of Teaching-Track Faculty: No Ph.D. Required.Kendra Walther, Adam Blank, Michael Ball, Suraj Rampure
2023SIGCSEImplementing Faded Parsons Problems in a Very Large CS1 Course.Lauren Zhou, Akshit Dewan, Anirudh Kothapalli, Pamela Fox, Michael Ball, Thomas Joseph
2022SIGCSESnap! 7 - Microworlds, Scenes, and Extensions!Dan Garcia, Michael Ball, Yuan Garcia
2022SIGCSEBeauty and Joy of Computing: AP CS Principles & Middle School Curriculum.Michael Ball, Lauren Mock, Dan Garcia, Tiffany Barnes, Marnie Hill, Mary Fries, Pamela Fox, Yuan Garcia
2022SIGCSEA New Class of Teaching-Track Faculty: No Ph.D. Required.Kendra Walther, Adam Blank, Michael Ball, Suraj Rampure
2021SIGCSETeaching TAs to Teach: Strategies for TA Training.Michael Ball, Andrew DeOrio, Justin Hsia, Adam Blank
2021SIGCSEEffective Video Production for Online and In-Person Courses.Michael Ball, Dan Garcia, Eric Arvai
2021SIGCSESnap!6, Introducing Hyperblocks!Dan Garcia, Michael Ball
2021SIGCSETeaching with the Beauty and Joy of Computing - AP CSP and More!Marnie Hill, Dan Garcia, Tiffany Barnes, Lauren Mock, Michael Ball, Amy Isvik, Dave Bell
2021SIGCSEActive Academic Integrity.Alex Kassil, Michael Ball
2021SIGCSEStrategies for Authentic Assessments of Mastery in CS Courses.Kevin Lin, Lina Battestilli, Michael Ball
2020SIGCSETeaching TAs To Teach: Strategies for TA Training.Michael Ball, Justin Hsia, Heather Pon-Barry, Andrew DeOrio, Adam Blank
2020SIGCSEThe Beauty and Joy of Computing Curriculum and Teacher Professional Development.Michael Ball, Lauren Mock, Dan Garcia, Tiffany Barnes, Marnie Hill, Alexandra Milliken, Joshua Paley, Efrain Lopez, Jason Bohrer
2020SIGCSESnap! v5, Our Biggest, Feature-filled Release Ever!Dan Garcia, Michael Ball
2019SIGCSESnap! A Look at 5 Years, 250, 000 Users and 2 Million Projects.Michael Ball, Jens Mnig, Bernat Romagosa, Brian Harvey
2018SIGCSEIRT in 5 Minutes: Easy Ways to Better Understand an Assessment (Abstract Only).Michael Ball
2018SIGCSETechnology We Can't Live Without!, revisited.Ria Galanos, Michael Ball, John P. Dougherty, Joe Hummel, David J. Malan
2018SIGCSEAP CS Principles and The Beauty and Joy of Computing Curriculum: (Abstract Only).Alexandra Milliken, Michael Ball, Lauren Mock
2017SIGCSEWriting Autograders for Snap! And Integrating them Into Your Course (Abstract Only).Michael Ball
2017SIGCSEImplementing "In-Lab" Autograding for Snap! (Abstract Only).Michael Ball
2016SIGCSEAP CS Principles and The Beauty and Joy of Computing Curriculum (Abstract Only).Daniel D. Garcia, Tiffany Barnes, Michael Ball, Emil Biga, Josh Paley, Marnie Hill, Nathan Mattix, Parisa Safa, Sean Morris, Shawn Kenner
2015SIGCSEOh, Snap! Enabling and Encouraging Success in CS1 (Abstract Only).Michael Ball, Lauren Mock, Jonathan McKinsey, Zachary MacHardy, Daniel D. Garcia, Nathaniel Titterton, Brian Harvey
2014AMIATextHunter - A User Friendly Tool for Extracting Generic Concepts from Free Text in Clinical Research.Richard G. Jackson, Michael Ball, Rashmi Patel, Richard D. Hayes, Richard J. B. Dobson, Robert Stewart