Richard E. Pattis

Richard E. Pattis is a senior lecturer at the University of California, Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences.

He is the author of the Karel programming language, and published Karel the Robot: A gentle introduction to the art of programming.

Pattis has been a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington. He holds a master's degree from Stanford University.

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