3 papers
cs.SE2025
"I Would Have Written My Code Differently'': Beginners Struggle to Understand LLM-Generated Code
Yangtian Zi, Luisa Li, Arjun Guha +2
Large language models (LLMs) are being increasingly adopted for programming work. Prior work shows that while LLMs accelerate task completion for professional programmers, beginnin…
cs.CY2024
Substance Beats Style: Why Beginning Students Fail to Code with LLMs
Francesca Lucchetti, Zixuan Wu, Arjun Guha +2
Although LLMs are increasing the productivity of professional programmers, existing work shows that beginners struggle to prompt LLMs to solve text-to-code tasks. Why is this the c…
cs.HC2024
How Beginning Programmers and Code LLMs (Mis)read Each Other
Sydney Nguyen, Hannah McLean Babe, Yangtian Zi +3
Generative AI models, specifically large language models (LLMs), have made strides towards the long-standing goal of text-to-code generation. This progress has invited numerous stu…