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About Me

I am a lecturer in Computer Science (Cybersecurity) at the University of Lincoln and a PhD student at King’s College London. My research is undertaken within the King’s Programming Education Technologies (K-PET) Group and King’s Computing Education Research Centre (CERC) where I am co-supervised by Professor Michael Kölling and Dr Neil Brown.

Research Interests

My research aims to build on the frame-based editing paradigm to design and implement a novel programming system for young novices who use screen readers as their primary means of accessing a computer.

My broad research interests include; computing education, programming systems, human computer interaction, and accessibility.

Biography

Prior to becoming a full-time academic I worked in the industry for almost 20 years as a software engineer with expertise in open source software, software supply chain security, and build systems.

For most of my industry career I worked on open source software projects in the fields of build systems and software supply chain security, most notably as a founding contributor to the Yocto Project, as a maintainer on The Update Framework (TUF), and as a maintainer and steering committee member for the Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) project. Some of my fondest professional memories were working on open source UX for clamshell (a.k.a netbook and laptop) devices on the Moblin and MeeGo projects.

Publications

1. 📜 Programming Education for Blind and Low Vision Users: Beyond Reading the Screen

   Joshua G. Lock, Neil. C. C. Brown, Michael Kölling

   25th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research

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2. 📜 A Programming System for Blind and Low-Vision Novice Programmers

   Joshua G. Lock

   Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Doctoral Consortium, 2025

   PDF BibTex Doctoral Consortium

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