Exploring the Role of AI Assistants in Computer Science Education: Methods, Implications, and Instructor Perspectives

T Wang, DV Díaz, C Brown… - 2023 IEEE Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of AI assistants, along with the challenges they present, has sparked significant
debate within the community of computer science education. While these tools demonstrate …

A large-scale survey on the usability of ai programming assistants: Successes and challenges

JT Liang, C Yang, BA Myers - Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The software engineering community recently has witnessed widespread deployment of AI
programming assistants, such as GitHub Copilot. However, in practice, developers do not …

An integrative human-centered architecture for interactive programming assistants

A Blinn, D Moon, E Griffis… - 2022 IEEE Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Programming has become a collaboration between human programmers, who drive intent,
and interactive assistants that suggest contextually relevant editor actions. There has been …

Teaching students about conversational ai using convo, a conversational programming agent

J Zhu, J Van Brummelen - 2021 IEEE symposium on visual …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart assistants, like Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri, have become commonplace in many
people's lives, appearing in their phones and homes. Despite their ubiquity, these …

A Practical Strategy for Training Graduate CS Teaching Assistants to Provide Effective Feedback

A Zaman, A Cook, V Phan, A Windsor - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Computer science (CS) relies heavily on teaching assistants (TAs) who are often untrained
in CS pedagogy. Existing research on CS TA training typically studies American …

Early design of a conversational ai development platform for middle schoolers

A Kumar, X Tian, M Celepkolu, M Israel… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
More young people are interacting with smart conversational agents such as Alexa and
Google Assistant. These platforms are extensible, providing, in principle, a compelling …

Designing a visual interface for elementary students to formulate ai planning tasks

K Park, B Mott, S Lee, K Glazewski… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent years have seen the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in every facet of
society. The ubiquity of AI has led to an increasing demand to integrate AI learning …

AI book club: An innovative professional development model for AI education

I Lee, H Zhang, K Moore, X Zhou, B Perret… - Proceedings of the 53rd …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This paper describes an AI Book Club as an innovative 20-hour professional development
(PD) model designed to prepare teachers with AI content knowledge and an understanding …

How are AI assistants changing higher education?

EM Schön, M Neumann, C Hofmann-Stölting… - Frontiers in Computer …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Context Higher education is changing at an accelerating pace due to the widespread use of
digital teaching and emerging technologies. In particular, AI assistants such as ChatGPT …

An AI ethics course highlighting explicit ethical agents

N Green - Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This is an experience report describing a pilot AI Ethics course for undergraduate computer
science majors. In addition to teaching students about different ethical approaches and …