João Paulo Barros received the Lic. and M.Sc. degrees in informatics engineering in 1993 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in 2006 in Digital Systems, all from Nova University Lisbon, Portugal. He is a Professor of Informatics at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja in Beja, Portugal, and a Researcher at UNINOVA-CTS Institute in Lisbon. His research interests include Petri nets, graphical specification languages, languages and tools for object-oriented, model-driven software development, and computer science education. He is also especially interested in mobile computing, software educational tools, programming didactics, and curriculum development. Mr. Barros is an invited external evaluator for the Portuguese Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education - A3ES, an ACM, ACM SIGCSE member, and a Portuguese Society for Engineering Education founding member.