Ms Vreda Pieterse

Position: Lecturer Qualifications: BSc, HOD(Pret), BSc(Hons)(Unisa), MSc(Pret), #PhD/5 Homepage: http://www.cs.up.ac.za/~vpieterse/ E-mail address: vpieterse@cs.up.ac.za Phone Number: +27 12 420 3652 Office: IT 4-24

I started programming in 1974 when I attended a programming course in PL/I as part of my B.Sc. degree at the University of Pretoria. I soon found myself working at the help desk in the Computer Center, assisting other students with various programming languages including COBOL, FORTRAN and APL. Ever since I was in some way or the other involved in the development of small to medium systems using various development tools and languages ranging from different versions of BASIC, Smalltalk, LISP and Pascal to Java, JavaScript, C# and others. For my M.Sc. thesis I investigated Literate Programming, visualization of programs, Visual Programming, Integrated Programming Environments and Hypermedia. I concluded that the technology existed to develop a powerful, versatile and highly usable integrated programming environment, which could be utilised for true Literate Programming using visual object-oriented programming languages. I started teaching in 1976 in Windhoek at a secondary school. In 1981 I was appointed as a lecturer in Mathematics at the Windhoek Onderwyskollege. After I was envolved in some research at the Human Science Research Council, I took a break to raise my children before comming back to teaching as a Computer Studies teacher at the Bethlehem Computer Centre. From 1991 to 2001 I was appointed as lecturer at the Onderwyskollege Pretoria whereafter I accepted a post as lecturer at the Department Of Computer Science of the University of Pretoria.