Richard E. Pattis
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Richard Eric Pattis is an American professor emeritus [1] at the University of California, Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, where he taught introductory programming and data structures.[2]
OccupationProfessor
AwardsACM Distinguished Member
Richard E. Pattis | |
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| Occupation | Professor |
| Awards | ACM Distinguished Member |
He is the author of the Karel programming language, and published Karel the Robot: A gentle introduction to the art of programming.[3][4]
Pattis has been a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington. He holds a master's degree from Stanford University.
He has moved back to Pittsburgh where he is a special faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, advising CS undergraduates.
In 2011, he was elected an ACM Distinguished Member.[5]
