Not Standing at the Same Starting Line: Investigation of Prior Programming Experience on Student Performance in an Introductory Programming Course in ECE

Abstract

Ziyue Li received her B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign in 2019. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science degree in ECE from the same institution with the Systems Networking Research Group. She has assisted with undergraduate ECE courses for six semesters and was involved with the development of numerous online courses offered through Coursera. Off campus, she has interned with various teams at Google in designing reliable systems for use in production. Her current research focuses on mobile computing and sensing systems in the acoustic domain.