2 papers
cs.CY2026
Understanding Student Perceptions, Mistakes, and Debugging Approaches when Solving Natural Language Programming Tasks
Victor-Alexandru PÄdurean, Kaitlin Riegel, Gweneth Barbre +7
Learning to communicate with code-generating AI models is an emerging skill for novice programmers. One recent pedagogical approach, Prompt Problems, has students solve computation…
cs.CY2024
Breaking the Programming Language Barrier: Multilingual Prompting to Empower Non-Native English Learners
James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny +11
Non-native English speakers (NNES) face multiple barriers to learning programming. These barriers can be obvious, such as the fact that programming language syntax and instruction…