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Removing the Competition from Introductory Competitive Programming: A Backward-Designed, Mastery-Oriented Curriculum Sequence
Ethan Dickey
Competitive programming courses often inherit the visible features of programming contests -- timed rounds, rankings, penalty systems, and topic lists -- before articulating what n…
Instructional Governance by Design: A Framework for AI in Computing Education
Ethan Dickey
As generative AI permeates computing instruction, the emergent design challenge is to configure each tool's pedagogical role, authority, and accountability for the instructional wo…
BoilerSketch: A TA-Supervised, Diagram-First GenAI Practice for Structured Diagrams in CS1/Early CS2
Ethan Dickey, Vivan Tiwari, Anvit Sinha +1
This innovative practice full paper presents BoilerSketch, a TA-supervised, diagram-first GenAI practice and tablet interface for providing structured visual explanations in CS1 an…
CodeStylist: Supporting Early Undergraduate Programmers with Course-Aware Code Style Feedback
Ethan Dickey, Libra Vento, Peter Kurto +1
This innovative practice full paper presents CodeStylist, a web application that provides course-standard-aware code style feedback for early undergraduate programming courses. Cod…
Is Solving Better Than Evaluating GenAI Solutions?
Ethan Dickey, Marios Mertzanidis, Alexandros Psomas
As Generative AI (GenAI) tools become increasingly capable of generating solutions to computing assignments, the computing education community is exploring pedagogical approaches t…
Owlgorithm: Supporting Self-Regulated Learning in Competitive Programming through LLM-Driven Reflection
Juliana Nieto-Cardenas, Erin Joy Kramer, Peter Kurto +2
We present Owlgorithm, an educational platform that supports Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) in competitive programming (CP) through AI-generated reflective questions. Leveraging GPT…
A Scaffolded GenAI Lab in Early Undergraduate CS: A Mixed-Methods, Multi-Course Evaluation
Ethan Dickey, Andres Bejarano, Rhianna Kuperus +1
Background and Context. Generative AI (GenAI) tools are increasingly used in programming courses, but we have limited evidence about how brief instruction can foster responsible, l…
BoilerTAI: A Platform for Enhancing Instruction Using Generative AI in Educational Forums
Anvit Sinha, Shruti Goyal, Zachary Sy +3
Contribution: This Full paper in the Research Category track describes a practical, scalable platform that seamlessly integrates Generative AI (GenAI) with online educational forum…
Innovating Computer Programming Pedagogy: The AI-Lab Framework for Generative AI Adoption
Ethan Dickey, Andres Bejarano, Chirayu Garg
Over the last year, the ascent of Generative AI (GenAI) has raised concerns about its impact on core skill development, such as problem-solving and algorithmic thinking, in Compute…
GAIDE: A Framework for Using Generative AI to Assist in Course Content Development
Ethan Dickey, Andres Bejarano
This paper introduces "GAIDE: Generative AI for Instructional Development and Education," a novel framework for using Generative AI (GenAI) to enhance educational content creation.…
A Relative Church-Turing-Deutsch Thesis from Special Relativity and Undecidability
Blake Wilson, Ethan Dickey, Vaishnavi Iyer +1
Beginning with Turing's seminal work in 1950, artificial intelligence proposes that consciousness can be simulated by a Turing machine. This implies a potential theory of everythin…