Department of Computer Science 181 Adams Street

John Avitabile

Department of Computer Science 181 Adams Street

College of Saint Rose Delmar, NY 12054

Albany, NY 12203 (518) 475-9515

(518) 458-5317

Teaching Experience:

College of Saint Rose, 1989-present. Associate Professor of Computer Science. Department Chair, 1991-1997; 2001-2007; 2015-present.

Albright College, 1988-1989. Instructor of Computer Science.

Rutgers University, 1984-1988. Instructor of Computer Science. Course co-ordinator for Introduction to Computers and Applications.

Trenton State College, 1987-1988. Adjunct Faculty in Department of Computer Science.

Education:

MS in Computer Science, Rutgers University.

BS in Biomedicine, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Publications:

Assessing Change after a Computer Course for At-Risk Students, Proceedings of the National Educational Computing Conference, 1996

Introduction to Computing: Macintosh, McGraw Hill, 1993

A Beginner's Guide to True BASIC, John Wiley & Sons, 1989

Instructor's Manual to accompany World of Computing, Houghton Mifflin, 1988

Study Guide to accompany Radlow's Computers and the Information Society, McGraw Hill, 1986

Presentations:

Shakespeare and Scratch; August 2014; Scratch@MIT; Scratch Conference 2014; Cambridge, MA.

Assessing Change after a Computer Course for At-Risk Students; June 1996; National Educational Computing Conference; Minneapolis, Minnesota

Information Technology - New Programs, New Courses; October 1995; Conference on Information Technology Education; Rochester, New York

Expanding the Market for Computer Science and Computer Information Systems Programs; October 1995; Eastern Small College Computing Conference; New Rochelle, New York

A Capstone Computer Project in the Pre-Freshman HEOP Summer Program; October 1994; HEOPPO Annual Conference; Rye Brook, New York

An On-Line Tutorial to Teach Programming Using HyperCard; June 1994; National Educational Computing Conference; Boston, Massachusetts

A Computer Literacy Course in the Pre-Freshman Summer Program; January 1994; HEOPPO Annual Conference; Albany, New York

HyperCard in the Computer Literacy Course; November 1993; Computers on Campus; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

An Introduction to HyperCard; April 1993; Computing Across the Curriculum; Russell Sage College; Troy, New York

A HyperCard Based Relational Database; November 1992; Teaching Tools for the 90's; Syracuse, New York