Dutch engineer and academic
Félienne Frederieke Johanna Hermans (/Fay-lee-nuh/, born 1984)
[2] is a scientist and Professor at
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam .
[3]
[4]
[5] Her research interests include
programming education
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] and
end-user computing
[1] particularly
spreadsheets .
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
Education
Hermans received her
Master of Science degree in
computer science from
Eindhoven University of Technology ,[
when? ] [
citation needed ] and her
PhD in
software engineering in 2013 from
Delft University of Technology .
[15]
Career and research
After her PhD, she was appointed an
assistant professor at
Delft University of Technology ,
[16]
[17] heading the Spreadsheet Lab.
[18]
As of 2024
[update] Hermans is head of the Programming Education Research Lab (PERL).
[19]
Hermans is the founder and former CEO of Infotron, a
research spin-off company of TU Delft that implements risk assessment software for spreadsheets.[
citation needed ]
Hermans is active with DigiLeerkracht, the
computational thinking teaching by Future.nl,
[20] and teaches programming,
[21] including one day a week at the Lyceum Kralingen in Rotterdam.
[22]
In addition, Hermans is a referee at the
FIRST Lego League Challenge , where children build a robot from
Lego .
[23]
[24]
She served as a board member at Devnology Nederland,
[25] an organisation for software developers. She is a co-organiser of the yearly conference Joy of Coding .
[26]
Outreach
In 2011, Hermans gave a
TEDx talk in Delft.
[27]
Hermans has given research talks at conferences including StrangeLoop,
[28] NDC,
[29]
[30]
[31]
GOTO ,
[32]
[33]
[34] and DDD Europe,
[35] a conference about
domain-driven design . Since 2016, she is a host of SE Radio.
[36]
[37]
Hermans produced several
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) on
edX , with topics including programming in
Scratch for teachers and children.
[38] She self-published an e-book about the creation of games for children.
[39] In 2017, she started a program for Rotterdam elementary students to receive programming lessons.
[40] In 2020, Hermans launched the Hedy programming language, to teach children to use the
Python programming language .
[41]
[42]
She is the author of The Programmer's Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition .
[6]
Awards and honours
Hermans' online data analysis course was awarded the Wharton-QS gold education award for best education innovation project entry in Europe.
[43]
[44]
[45] [
better source needed ]
Hermans won the SURF Education Award in 2017, SURF being the collaborative
Information and communications technology (ICT) organisation for Dutch education and research.
[46]
[47]
[48]
[49]
In 2018, the Open Education Consortium awarded her the Open Education Award for Excellence.
[50] Also in 2018, Hermans won the Tech Inspirator Award at the Techionista Awards.
[51]
References
^
a
b
Felienne Hermans publications indexed by
Google Scholar
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a
b
ISNI
0000000419580391
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Felienne Hermans at
DBLP Bibliography Server
^
Felienne Hermans publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ Félienne's
ORCID
0000-0003-0722-0156
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a
b Hermans, Félienne (2021). The Programmer's Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition . Manning.
ISBN
9781617298677 .
OCLC
1244535535 .
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"Programming for everyone" . instantmagazine.com . TU Delft. Retrieved 2019-01-10 .
^ Visser, Johannes (2017-10-11).
"Deze onderzoeker vindt dat ieder kind moet programmeren" . decorrespondent.nl . Retrieved 2019-01-10 .
^ Brown, Neil C.C.; Hermans, Felienne F.J.; Margulieux, Lauren (2023).
"10 Things Software Developers Should Learn about Learning" .
Communications of the ACM . 67 (1).
Association for Computing Machinery : 78–87.
doi :
10.1145/3584859 .
^ Burn-Callander, Rebecca (2015-04-07).
"Stupid errors in spreadsheets could lead to Britain's next corporate disaster" . telegraph.co.uk .
The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
^ Burn-Callander, Rebecca (2015-04-07).
"Companies could lose billions because of crappy spreadsheets" . telegraph.co.uk .
The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
^ Pollack, Lisa (2016-07-19).
"Escaping the spreadsheet cell" . ft.com .
Financial Times . Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
^ Shueh, Jason (2014-03-03).
"Why Spreadsheets Stink — and 4 Ways to Improve Them" . telegraph.co.uk .
The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
^ Ian Bennett FCA (2016-12-01).
"Excel threatened by new technology" . acuitymag.com . Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
^ Hermans, Félienne Frederieke Johanna (2013).
Analyzing and visualizing spreadsheets . tudelft.nl (PhD thesis). Delft University of Technology.
doi :
10.4233/uuid:3a3ea534-68df-44a5-8a2d-411826d0335a .
OCLC
905869356 .
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"Felienne Hermans" . TU Delft . Retrieved 2019-04-26 .
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"Felienne Hermans: "Programmeren is Macht!" " . Brinkman Uitgeverij . Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
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"Teaching Excel and data analysis—one professor's efforts to prepare students for today's careers" . Microsoft 365 . Microsoft. 6 April 2015. Retrieved 2019-01-10 .
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"Homepage of the Programming Education Research Lab" . perl.liacs.nl .
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"LEERLIJN DIGITALE GELETTERDHEID" . futurenl.org (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
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"Felienne Hermans: "Programmeren is Macht!" " . Brinkman Uitgeverij . Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
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"Lyceum Kralingen" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-03-21 .
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"FIRST® LEGO League" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-03-20 .
^ Rolf Hut (2015-01-24).
"Lego-nakomelingen" . volkskrant.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
^
"Devnology" . devnology.nl . Archived from
the original on 2019-03-21. Retrieved 2019-03-20 .
^
"Joy of Coding 2019" . joyofcoding.org . Retrieved 2019-03-20 .
^
"TEDxDelft - Felienne Hermans - What Archimedes has to say about spreadsheets" . TEDx Talks. 2011-11-29.
^ Strange Loop (2014-09-21).
" "Spreadsheets for developers" by Felienne Hermans" .
YouTube .
^ NDC Conferences (2016-04-09).
"NDC London 2016 • Functional programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans" .
^ NDC Conferences (2017-06-05).
"NDC Olso 2017 • Programming is writing is programming • Felienne Hermans" .
YouTube .
^ NDC Conferences (2018-02-07).
"NDC 2018 • Keynote: What is programming anyway? • Felienne Hermans" .
^ GOTO Conferences (2016-04-21).
"GOTO 2015 • Spreadsheets for Developers • Felienne Hermans" .
YouTube .
^ GOTO Conferences (2016-08-09).
"GOTO 2016 • Pure Functional Programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans" .
YouTube .
^ GOTO Conferences (2017-06-20).
"GOTO 2017 • Teaching Children about Clean Code • Felienne Hermans" .
YouTube .
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"Felienne Hermans — A board game night with geeks" . Domain-Driven Design Europe. 30 May 2016. Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
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"Team : Software Engineering Radio" . SE Radio. 1 January 2010. Retrieved 2019-01-14 .
^ Hermans, Felienne (15 May 2017). "Peter Hilton on Naming". IEEE Software . 34 (3). IEEE: 117–120.
doi :
10.1109/MS.2017.81 .
S2CID
27026340 .
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"Felienne Hermans" . edx.org . 2014-11-10. Retrieved 2019-03-20 .
^
Scratch: Maak je eigen games – Simple Book Production . pressbooks.com.
ISBN
9789461867025 . Retrieved 2019-03-20 .
^ Maarten Ritman (2017-05-03).
"Programmeerles op basisscholen" (in Dutch). De Telegraaf. Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
^ Hermans, Felienne (February 2021).
"Learning text-based programming with Hedy" . helloworld.raspberrypi.org .
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"Felienne Hermans receives Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2021 | NWO" . nwo.nl . 21 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-03-22 .
^ TU Delft (2016-01-19).
"Onderwijsprijs voor online cursus Felienne Hermans" (in Dutch). Emerce. Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
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"ONLINE CURSUS 'DATA ANALYSIS' IS BESTE ONDERWIJSINNOVATIEPROJECT IN EUROPA" (in Dutch). Nationale Onderwijsgids. 2016-01-20. Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
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"SURF onderwijsprijs voor Felienne Hermans" . TU Delft. 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
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"Felienne Hermans wins SURF Education Award" . TU Delft. 2017-11-21. Retrieved 2019-01-09 .
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"SURF onderwijsprijs voor Felienne Hermans" . TU Delft. 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
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"Innovatieve TU-docente wint SURF Onderwijsaward" . AD. 10 November 2017. Retrieved 2019-04-26 .
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"SURF Onderwijsawards 2017 - Felienne Hermans" . Coöperatie SURF. 2017-11-06. Retrieved 2019-04-27 .
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"Felienne Hermans won the Open Education Award for Excellence" . TU Delft. 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2019-01-10 .
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"Felienne Hermans | Techionista Awards" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-03-20 .
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