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20162025
most citedPrutor: A System for Tutoring CS1 and Collecting Student Programs for Analysis

19 citations · 19 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.AI2025

Beyond Consensus: Mitigating the Agreeableness Bias in LLM Judge Evaluations

Suryaansh Jain, Umair Z. Ahmed, Shubham Sahai +1

New Large Language Models (LLMs) become available every few weeks, and modern application developers confronted with the unenviable task of having to decide if they should switch t…

cs.SE2021

Verifix: Verified Repair of Programming Assignments

Umair Z. Ahmed, Zhiyu Fan, Jooyong Yi +2

Automated feedback generation for introductory programming assignments is useful for programming education. Most works try to generate feedback to correct a student program by comp…

cs.CY2020

Synthesizing Tasks for Block-based Programming

Umair Z. Ahmed, Maria Christakis, Aleksandr Efremov +4

Block-based visual programming environments play a critical role in introducing computing concepts to K-12 students. One of the key pedagogical challenges in these environments is…

cs.SE2020

MACER: A Modular Framework for Accelerated Compilation Error Repair

Darshak Chhatbar, Umair Z. Ahmed, Purushottam Kar

Automated compilation error repair, the problem of suggesting fixes to buggy programs that fail to compile, has generated significant interest in recent years. Apart from being a t…

cs.SE2019

Targeted Example Generation for Compilation Errors

Umair Z. Ahmed, Renuka Sindhgatta, Nisheeth Srivastava +1

We present TEGCER, an automated feedback tool for novice programmers. TEGCER uses supervised classification to match compilation errors in new code submissions with relevant pre-ex…

cs.CY2016★ 19 cited

Prutor: A System for Tutoring CS1 and Collecting Student Programs for Analysis

Rajdeep Das, Umair Z. Ahmed, Amey Karkare +1

An introductory programming course (CS1) is an integral part of any undergraduate curriculum. Due to large number and diverse programming background of students, providing timely a…