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most citedHow Beginning Programmers and Code LLMs (Mis)read Each Other

60 citations · 84 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.SE2025★ 5 cited

"I Would Have Written My Code Differently'': Beginners Struggle to Understand LLM-Generated Code

Yangtian Zi, Luisa Li, Arjun Guha +2

Large language models (LLMs) are being increasingly adopted for programming work. Prior work shows that while LLMs accelerate task completion for professional programmers, beginnin…

cs.CY2024★ 2 cited

Substance Beats Style: Why Beginning Students Fail to Code with LLMs

Francesca Lucchetti, Zixuan Wu, Arjun Guha +2

Although LLMs are increasing the productivity of professional programmers, existing work shows that beginners struggle to prompt LLMs to solve text-to-code tasks. Why is this the c…

cs.HC2024★ 60 cited

How Beginning Programmers and Code LLMs (Mis)read Each Other

Sydney Nguyen, Hannah McLean Babe, Yangtian Zi +3

Generative AI models, specifically large language models (LLMs), have made strides towards the long-standing goal of text-to-code generation. This progress has invited numerous stu…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

StudentEval: A Benchmark of Student-Written Prompts for Large Language Models of Code

Hannah McLean Babe, Sydney Nguyen, Yangtian Zi +3

Code LLMs are being rapidly deployed and there is evidence that they can make professional programmers more productive. Current benchmarks for code generation measure whether model…

cs.LG2022★ 14 cited

MultiPL-E: A Scalable and Extensible Approach to Benchmarking Neural Code Generation

Federico Cassano, John Gouwar, Daniel Nguyen +10

Large language models have demonstrated the ability to generate both natural language and programming language text. Such models open up the possibility of multi-language code gene…