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Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI
Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker +7
The computing education community has a rich history of pedagogical innovation designed to support students in introductory courses, and to support teachers in facilitating student…
"It's Weird That it Knows What I Want": Usability and Interactions with Copilot for Novice Programmers
James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny +6
Recent developments in deep learning have resulted in code-generation models that produce source code from natural language and code-based prompts with high accuracy. This is likel…
Programming Is Hard -- Or at Least It Used to Be: Educational Opportunities And Challenges of AI Code Generation
Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, James Finnie-Ansley +3
The introductory programming sequence has been the focus of much research in computing education. The recent advent of several viable and freely-available AI-driven code generation…