| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Professor |
Richard Eric Pattis is an American professor emeritus [1] at the University of California, Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, where he taught introductory programming and data structures.[2]
He is the author of the Karel programming language, and published Karel the Robot: A gentle introduction to the art of programming.[3] [4]
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.
He has moved back to Pittsburgh where he is a special faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, advising CS undergraduates.