Valentin Herrmann

TUM
mail[at]valentin-herrmann.com valentin.herrmann[at]tum.de

About Me

CS Education enthusiast who started as self-taught software developer in the semiconductor industry and proceeded to becoming a teacher and gain interest in education technology and cs education.

Research Interests

Education Technology: auto-grading systems in K-12, block-based languages

My current projects (available at Github)

Block-based programming

BlueJ Blockly Extension (BBE): Block based programming with automatic translation to Java as extensions of the education IDE BlueJ.
Blockly2Java - Heart of BBE: Standalone available at: b2j.valentin-herrmann.com
Issues for these projects can be submitted 'here'.

SQL-Testing (e.g. for use with Artemis)

SQL Testing Tools: A framework to test simple SQL queries of K-12 students. Available at pypi
DBIU Databses: SQLite version of the databases from dbiu.de to use with SQL Testing Tools. Available at pypi.
Issues for these projects can be submitted in the respective Github repositories.

Finished projects

Comparing different ways to give automated feedback on programming exercises in K-12 education. (Bachelor Thesis, Grade 1.0)