prof. dr. ir. Felienne Hermans

Felienne Hermans is a professor of Computer Science Education.

I am fascinated by the question of how we can teach everyone to program. In my PhD dissertation I studied how we can help people working with spreadsheets better, by repurposing methods from software engineering.

After my thesis, I switched my research focus to programming education. Based on my experiences in teaching programming to kids, I developed Hedy, a new programming language that makes it easier for kids to learn textual programming, and I wrote up all that I learned about learning and teaching in The Programmer’s Brain, published at Manning. In 2021, I was awarded the Dutch Prize for ICT research.

I also write a quarterly column for De Ingenieur, the magazine for professional engineers in the Netherlands, and I have a weekly column in BNR Zakendoen (a Dutch national radio station).

• OSB | Amsterdam | Medewerker | 2025-05-01 - present
• Stichting Firewall | Amsterdam | Bestuurder | 2026-07-01 - present
• Stichting Hedy | Amstelveen | Bestuurder | 2024-05-22 - present
• SheldonCorp | Amstelveen | Directeur/eigenaar | 2013-10-01 - present

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