About Me

My name is James Skripchuk, and I’m working on my Computer Science PhD at North Carolina State University with a focus in Computer Science Education.

I’m a fifth year Ph.D. Candidate and a former NSF Graduate Research Fellow at North Carolina State University, and will be starting teaching track professor position at Tufts University this fall. My research involves studying how novice programmers navigate and learn to use the external information-seeking tools used by professional programmers. These tools range from documentation pages and Q&A websites to AI code generation tools. By understanding how novices use these tools and the challenges they face, I hope to design effective pedagogy for the self-regulatory learning skills needed in the rapidly changing landscape of programming education.

Hobbies

I’m a music nerd with a penchant for all things electronic and digital. Modern day EDM, digital fusion, 90s and 80s house, retro 70s synthesizers, all the way to avant-garde of the 50s and 60s. Sometimes I make music too!