Dan Garcia
Teaching Professor (aka Senior Lecturer SOE) at UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolDan Garcia is a Teaching Professor in UC Berkeley’s EECS department with a PhD from Berkeley and over two decades of experience designing and teaching introductory computer science. A nationally recognized educator and ACM Distinguished Educator, he co-developed the NSF-funded Beauty and Joy of Computing curriculum that has trained 500+ high school teachers and consistently draws unusually high female enrollment for an intro CS course. He holds the department record for teaching effectiveness and has received multiple mentoring and service awards for broadening participation in computing. Active in national education policy and community-building, he has served on ACM Education Board and College Board CS committees and is the most frequent SIGCSE contributor in its history. Known for translating research-grade pedagogy into classroom-ready materials, he combines rigorous academic credentials with a rare track record of large-scale, practical impact on K–12 CS education.
12 years of coding experience
BS, BS at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMS, MS at UC BerkeleyRegents High School Diploma, Regents High School Diploma at Cooperstown Central High School
Github Skills (14)
snap10
visual10
blocks10
visual-programming-language9
programming-language9
visual-programming9
vue8
javascript7
typescript7
compiler6
tcl-tk4
solver3
tcl2
frontend2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ddgarcia/playbook
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:8 pushes in 4 months
cs-equitable-grading-practices/playbook
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 months
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