Nell B. Dale is an American

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noted for her work in

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introductory

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. She was on the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Board from 1981–85, and from 1987–93, and was Chair of SIGCSE from 1991–93. She was Chair of the SIGCSE Symposium in 1991 and Co-Chair of the SIGCSE Symposium in 2000.

Biography

Dale received a B.S. in

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from the

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in 1960. She received a M.A. in

from

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in 1964 and a Ph.D in

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in 1972. She joined the Department of Computer Science at the

as an instructor in 1975, then a lecturer in 1977, a Senior Lecturer in 1981, and retired in 2000. Dale wrote 16 textbooks on Pascal, C++, Visual Basic, Java and Ada.

Bibliography

(with John Lewis) ''Computer Science Illuminated'' (5th Edition 2012). Jones and Bartlett.

Awards

In the year 2009 she was named an ACM Fellow. Her other notable awards include: * ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Educator Award (2001) * IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Award (2013) * SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education (1996)

References

External links

* University of Texas at Austin
Nell B. Dale, Department of Computer Science
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