2 papers
cs.SE2025
Debugging Without Error Messages: How LLM Prompting Strategy Affects Programming Error Explanation Effectiveness
Audrey Salmon, Katie Hammer, Eddie Antonio Santos +1
Making errors is part of the programming process -- even for the most seasoned professionals. Novices in particular are bound to make many errors while learning. It is well known t…
cs.AI2024
Not the Silver Bullet: LLM-enhanced Programming Error Messages are Ineffective in Practice
Eddie Antonio Santos, Brett A. Becker
The sudden emergence of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has had a disruptive impact throughout the computing education community. LLMs have been shown to excel at prod…