Prof. Dr. Tobias Kohn

Prof. Dr. Tobias Kohn

  • Adenauerring 10
    76131 Karlsruhe

Tobias Kohn

Tobias Kohn is chair of the computing education group.  His research interests focus on computing education as well as programming languages and compilers.

After graduating in mathematics and obtaining his certificate for teaching, he taught for more than ten years at Swiss high schools.  During that time he developed the programming environment TigerJython and received his PhD in computer science from ETH Zürich.  He then moved to the UK, studying and teaching computer science at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh, contributing to the introduction of pattern matching in Python.  After having held positions as assistant professor at the University of Utrecht and TU Vienna, he is now full professor at KIT since September 2023.

Publications


Models of Mastery Learning for Computing Education
Szabo, C.; Parker, M. C.; Friend, M.; Jeuring, J.; Kohn, T.; Malmi, L.; Sheard, J.
2025. Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1, 1092 – 1098, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3641554.3701868
The Two Powers: How Pascal and Python Shaped Programming Education
Kohn, T.; Staub, J.
2024. Informatics in Education, 23 (4), 837 – 868. doi:10.15388/infedu.2024.30
"Something that Happens Each Day" - Students’ Explanations of What Algorithms Are
Landman, M.; Kohn, T.
2024. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference : Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V.1, Mailand, 8th-10th July 2024, 199 – 205, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3649217.3653531
The rise of large language models: challenges for Critical Discourse Studies
Gillings, M.; Kohn, T.; Mautner, G.
2024. Critical Discourse Studies, 1–17. doi:10.1080/17405904.2024.2373733
The Robots Are Here: Navigating the Generative AI Revolution in Computing Education
Prather, J.; Denny, P.; Leinonen, J.; Becker, B. A.; Albluwi, I.; Craig, M.; Keuning, H.; Kiesler, N.; Kohn, T.; Luxton-Reilly, A.; MacNeil, S.; Petersen, A.; Pettit, R.; Reeves, B. N.; Savelka, J.
2023. Proceedings of the 2023 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 108–159, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3623762.3633499