Search Results for author: Brett A. Becker

Found 9 papers, 1 papers with code

The Robots are Here: Navigating the Generative AI Revolution in Computing Education

no code implementations1 Oct 2023 James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Brett A. Becker, Ibrahim Albluwi, Michelle Craig, Hieke Keuning, Natalie Kiesler, Tobias Kohn, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Peterson, Raymond Pettit, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromir Savelka

Second, we report the findings of a survey of computing students and instructors from across 20 countries, capturing prevailing attitudes towards LLMs and their use in computing education contexts.

Ethics

Promptly: Using Prompt Problems to Teach Learners How to Effectively Utilize AI Code Generators

no code implementations31 Jul 2023 Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Thezyrie Amarouche, Brett A. Becker, Brent N. Reeves

In parallel with this shift, a new essential skill is emerging -- the ability to construct good prompts for code-generating models.

Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI

no code implementations5 Jun 2023 Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, James Finnie-Ansley, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Brent N. Reeves, Eddie Antonio Santos, Sami Sarsa

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 learning.

Code Generation

"It's Weird That it Knows What I Want": Usability and Interactions with Copilot for Novice Programmers

no code implementations5 Apr 2023 James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Garrett Powell, James Finnie-Ansley, Eddie Antonio Santos

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.

Code Generation

Using Large Language Models to Enhance Programming Error Messages

no code implementations20 Oct 2022 Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas, Sami Sarsa, Brent Reeves, Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker

Large language models can be used to create useful and novice-friendly enhancements to programming error messages that sometimes surpass the original programming error messages in interpretability and actionability.

Improving Borderline Adulthood Facial Age Estimation through Ensemble Learning

no code implementations2 Jul 2019 Felix Anda, David Lillis, Aikaterini Kanta, Brett A. Becker, Elias Bou-Harb, Nhien-An Le-Khac, Mark Scanlon

Achieving high performance for facial age estimation with subjects in the borderline between adulthood and non-adulthood has always been a challenge.

Age Estimation Ensemble Learning

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