Anshul Shah

Anshul Shah

he/him

PhD Candidate at UC San Diego studying computing education.

Research

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

Needles in a Haystack: Student Struggles with Working on Large Code Bases

Published in ICER, 2025

Anshul Shah, Thomas Rexin, Anya Chernova, Gonzalo Allen-Perez, William G. Griswold, and Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj. 2025. Needles in a Haystack: Student Struggles with Working on Large Code Bases. In ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research V.1 (ICER 2025 Vol. 1), August 3–6, 2025, Charlottesville, VA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3702652.3744218



Students’ Program Comprehension Processes in a Large Code Base

Published in International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2025

Anshul Shah, Thanh Tong, Elena Tomson, Steven Shi, Bill Griswold, Gerald Soosairaj. 2025. Students’ Program Comprehension Processes in a Large Code Base. In Proceedings of the 33nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/icpc/2025/022300a182/27CwOe0H6es




Introducing Code Quality at CS1 Level: Examples and Activities

Published in ITICSE Working Group, 2025

Cruz Izu, Claudio Mirolo, Jürgen Börstler, Harold Connamacher, Ryan Crosby, Richard Glassey, Georgiana Haldeman, Olli Kiljunen, Amruth N. Kumar, David Liu, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Stephanos Matsumoto, Eduardo Carneiro de Oliveira, SeÁn Russell, and Anshul Shah. 2025. Introducing Code Quality at CS1 Level: Examples and Activities. In 2024 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2024). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 339–377. https://doi.org/10.1145/3689187.3709615


A Comparison of Student Behavioral Engagement in Traditional Live Coding and Active Live Coding Lectures

Published in ITiCSE, 2024

Anshul Shah, Fatimah Alhumrani, William G. Griswold, Leo Porter, and Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj. 2024. A Comparison of Student Behavioral Engagement in Traditional Live Coding and Active Live Coding Lectures. In Proceedings of the 2024 Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1 (ITiCSE 2024), July 8–10, 2024, Milan, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3649217.3653537


In-Person vs Blended Learning: An Examination of Grades, Attendance, Peer Support, Competitiveness, and Belonging

Published in ITiCSE, 2024

Anshul Shah, Vardhan Agarwal, William G. Griswold, Leo Porter, and Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj. 2024. In-Person vs Blended Learning: An Examination of Grades, Attendance, Peer Support, Competitiveness, and Belonging. In Proceedings of the 2024 Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1 (ITiCSE 2024), July 8–10, 2024, Milan, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3649217.3653604


Working with Large Code Bases: A Cognitive Apprenticeship Approach to Teaching Software Engineering

Published in SIGCSE, 2024

Anshul Shah, Jerry Yu, Thanh Tong, and Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj. 2024. Working with Large Code Bases: A Cognitive Apprenticeship Approach to Teaching Software Engineering. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2024). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1209–1215. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630755



An Empirical Evaluation of Live Coding in CS1

Published in ICER, 2023

Anshul Shah, Emma Hogan, Vardhan Agarwal, John Driscoll, Leo Porter, William G. Griswold, and Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj. 2023. An Empirical Evaluation of Live Coding in CS1. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 1 (ICER '23), Vol. 1. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 476–494. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568813.3600122


Engagement and Anonymity in Online Computer Science Course Forums

Published in ICER, 2023

Mrinal Sharma, Hayden McTavish, Zimo Peng, Anshul Shah, Vardhan Agarwal, Caroline Sih, Emma Hogan, Ismael Villegas Molina, Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj, and Kristen Vaccaro. 2023. Engagement and Anonymity in Online Computer Science Course Forums. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 1 (ICER '23), Vol. 1. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 48–62. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568813.3600121



The Impact of a Remote Live-Coding Pedagogy on Student Programming Processes, Grades, and Lecture Questions Asked

Published in ITiCSE, 2023

Anshul Shah, Vardhan Agarwal, Michael Granado, John Driscoll, Emma Hogan, Leo Porter, William Griswold, and Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj. 2023. The Impact of a Remote Live-Coding Pedagogy on Student Programming Processes, Grades, and Lecture Questions Asked. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1 (ITiCSE 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 533–539. https://doi.org/10.1145/3587102.3588846


Understanding and Measuring Incremental Development in CS1

Published in SIGCSE, 2023

Anshul Shah, Michael Granado, Mrinal Sharma, John Driscoll, Leo Porter, William G. Griswold, and Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj. 2023. Understanding and Measuring Incremental Development in CS1. In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2023), March 15–18, 2023, Toronto, ON, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545945.3569880