Michael Kölling
Introduction to Programming with Greenfoot
Object-Oriented Programming in Java with Games and Simulations

Pearson Education, August 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-603753-8
Book web site.

Bennedsen, Jens; Caspersen, Michael E.; Kölling, Michael (Eds.)
Reflections on the Teaching of Programming
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 4821

Springer, 2008
ISBN: 978-3-540-77933-9
Book web site

David J. Barnes & Michael Kölling
Objects First with Java
A Practical Introduction using BlueJ

Prentice Hall / Pearson Education, 2012
ISBN 978-013-283554-1
Book web site. 

• object-oriented systems
• programming languages
• computer science education

• development environments and tools
• visualisation
• user interfaces

Projects and activities

• BlueJ
• Greenfoot
• The Greenroom
• The Blueroom
• Blackbox

• Member of CAS (Computing At School)
• My blog
• The Joy of Code (Video tutorials)

About me

Here at the School of Computing, I usually teach programming (often one of the introductory programming modules, and sometimes other, more advanced, programming subjects) and HCI. I find both areas very exciting, and I like to build systems that combine the two.

I lead the Programming Tools group within the Computing Education research group in our school, where I work with a bunch of other people - staff members and PhD students - on developing software tools for the teaching and learning of programming. BlueJ and Greenfoot are part of that work.

Currently, I am really interested in working on improving the teaching of computing at school level. It's terrible how computing is neglected in many schools (even though there are also some really good places - they are too rare!). We need to change that.