Brian Harvey

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Teaching Professor Emeritus

Contact Information

441 Soda Hall

bh@cs.berkeley.edu

Office Hours

by appointment, 441 Soda

Links

Personal Homepage

Publications

Biography

Dr. Harvey is interested in the use of computers in K-12 education. He and his students developed Berkeley Logo, a free implementation of the Logo programming language for learners. With Jens Mönig, he is co-developer of Snap!, an offshoot of Scratch with first class procedures, lists, and prototype-based objects.

He received his B.S. in Mathematics at MIT in 1969, an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford in 1975, and a Ph.D. in Science and Mathematics Education from UC Berkeley in 1985. He also received a M.A. in Clinical Psychology, New College of California, 1990.

Dr. Harvey was awarded Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus' most prestigious award for teaching. He has also won the CS Division's Diane S. McIntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching and Information Technology Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Education

1990, MA, Clinical Psychology, New College of California

1985, PhD, Science & Mathematics Education, UC Berkeley

1975, MS, Computer Science, Stanford

1969, BS, Mathematics, MIT

Research Areas

Education (EDUC)

B. K. Harvey and M. Wright, Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science, 2nd ed., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
B. K. Harvey, Computer Science Logo Style, 2 ed., Vol. 1-3, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997.

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