Publications

We present DevScholar, a minimal static-site theme designed for academic portfolios. The theme prioritises readability, fast load times, and a frictionless authoring experience built on Astro and plain Markdown. We describe the design goals, component architecture, and lessons learned from deploying the theme for a CS faculty portfolio.

Introductory systems courses frequently overwhelm students by introducing pointers, memory management, and concurrency simultaneously. We describe a course redesign that introduces each concept in isolation using a sequence of small, self-contained projects. Evaluation across two semesters shows a 31% reduction in assignment failure rates and improved retention of pointer semantics on post-course assessments.

Frequent, low-overhead feedback during undergraduate software projects improves both product quality and student confidence. This paper examines three lightweight feedback practices — weekly check-ins, automated diff reviews, and peer walkthroughs — applied across four cohorts. We find statistically significant improvements in on-time delivery and self-reported understanding of version control workflows.