James Prather

According to our database, James Prather authored at least 53 papers between 2017 and 2024.

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2024

SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2025: Call for Submissions.

Libby Shoop, Samuel A. Rebelsky, James Prather

ACM SIGCSE Bull., July, 2024

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

James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Garrett B. Powell, James Finnie-Ansley, Eddie Antonio Santos

ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., February, 2024

Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI.

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

Commun. ACM, February, 2024

Integrating Natural Language Prompting Tasks in Introductory Programming Courses.

Chris Kerslake, Paul Denny, David H. Smith IV, James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Stephen MacNeil

CoRR, 2024

Prompts First, Finally.

Brent N. Reeves, James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Brett A. Becker, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

CoRR, 2024

Generative AI in Education: A Study of Educators' Awareness, Sentiments, and Influencing Factors.

Aashish Ghimire, James Prather, John Edwards

CoRR, 2024

Explaining Code with a Purpose: An Integrated Approach for Developing Code Comprehension and Prompting Skills.

Paul Denny, David H. Smith IV, Max Fowler, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen

CoRR, 2024

Interactions with Prompt Problems: A New Way to Teach Programming with Large Language Models.

James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, David H. Smith IV, Brent N. Reeves, Stephen MacNeil, Brett A. Becker, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Thezyrie Amarouche, Bailey Kimmel

CoRR, 2024

Solving Proof Block Problems Using Large Language Models.

Seth Poulsen, Sami Sarsa, James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Brett A. Becker, Arto Hellas, Paul Denny, Brent N. Reeves

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

Discussing the Changing Landscape of Generative AI in Computing Education.

Stephen MacNeil, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Natalie Kiesler, Arto Hellas, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Michel Wermelinger, Karen Reid

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

AI in Computing Education from Research to Practice.

Bita Akram, Juho Leinonen, Narges Norouzi, James Prather, Lisa Zhang

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

Prompt Problems: A New Programming Exercise for the Generative AI Era.

Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Thezyrie Amarouche, Brett A. Becker, Brent N. Reeves

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

Student-AI Interaction: A Case Study of CS1 students.

Matin Amoozadeh, Daye Nam, Daniel Prol, Ali Alfageeh, James Prather, Michael Hilton, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Amin Alipour

Proceedings of the 24th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, 2024

How Instructors Incorporate Generative AI into Teaching Computing.

James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Natalie Kiesler, Jamie Gorson Benario, Sam Lau, Stephen MacNeil, Narges Norouzi, Simone Opel, Virginia Pettit, Leo Porter, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromír Savelka, David H. Smith IV, Sven Strickroth, Daniel Zingaro

Proceedings of the 2024 on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2, 2024

Self-Regulation, Self-Efficacy, and Fear of Failure Interactions with How Novices Use LLMs to Solve Programming Problems.

Lauren E. Margulieux, James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Brett A. Becker, Gozde Cetin Uzun, Dastyni Loksa, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the 2024 on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1, 2024

Explaining Code with a Purpose: An Integrated Approach for Developing Code Comprehension and Prompting Skills.

Paul Denny, David H. Smith, Max Fowler, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen

Proceedings of the 2024 on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1, 2024

The Widening Gap: The Benefits and Harms of Generative AI for Novice Programmers.

James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Arisoa S. Randrianasolo, Brett A. Becker, Bailey Kimmel, Jared Wright, Ben Briggs

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2024

Evaluating Contextually Personalized Programming Exercises Created with Generative AI.

Evanfiya Logacheva, Arto Hellas, James Prather, Sami Sarsa, Juho Leinonen

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2024

"Backseat Gaming" A Study of Co-Regulated Learning within a Collegiate Male Esports Community.

Erica Kleinman, Reza Habibi, Garrett B. Powell, Brent N. Reeves, James Prather, Magy Seif El-Nasr

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

2023

Leverage Biology to Learn Rapidly From Mistakes Without Feeling Like a Failure.

Lauren E. Margulieux, James Prather, Masoumeh Rahimi, Gozde Cetin Uzun

Comput. Sci. Eng., 2023

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

Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Thezyrie Amarouche, Brett A. Becker, Brent N. Reeves

CoRR, 2023

First Steps Towards Predicting the Readability of Programming Error Messages.

James Prather, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Robert Nix, Brent N. Reeves, Arisoa S. Randrianasolo, Garrett B. Powell

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 1, 2023

The Implications of Large Language Models for CS Teachers and Students.

Stephen MacNeil, Joanne Kim, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Seth Bernstein, Brett A. Becker, Michel Wermelinger, Arto Hellas, Andrew Tran, Sami Sarsa, James Prather, Viraj Kumar

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 2, 2023

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, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, James Prather, Eddie Antonio Santos

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 1, 2023

Community Input for CS2023: Society, Ethics and Professionalism.

Brett A. Becker, Richard Blumenthal, Mikey Goldweber, James Prather, Susan Reiser, Michelle Trim, Titus Winters

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 2, 2023

Using Large Language Models to Enhance Programming Error Messages.

Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas, Sami Sarsa, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 1, 2023

Evaluating the Performance of Code Generation Models for Solving Parsons Problems With Small Prompt Variations.

Brent N. Reeves, Sami Sarsa, James Prather, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Arto Hellas, Bailey Kimmel, Garrett B. Powell, Juho Leinonen

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1, 2023

Transformed by Transformers: Navigating the AI Coding Revolution for Computing Education: An ITiCSE Working Group Conducted by Humans.

James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Brett A. Becker, Ibrahim Albluwi, Michael E. Caspersen, Michelle Craig, Hieke Keuning, Natalie Kiesler, Tobias Kohn, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Petersen, Raymond Pettit, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromír Savelka

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2, 2023

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

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 Petersen, Raymond Pettit, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromír Savelka

Proceedings of the 2023 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2023

Chat Overflow: Artificially Intelligent Models for Computing Education - renAIssance or apocAIypse?

Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen, James Prather

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1, 2023

Benefits of Failure on Neuroplasticity and Tools for Persistence.

Masoumeh Rahimi, Lauren E. Margulieux, James Prather, Gozde Cetin Uzun, Bailey Kimmel

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2023

My AI Wants to Know if This Will Be on the Exam: Testing OpenAI's Codex on CS2 Programming Exercises.

James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Eddie Antonio Santos, James Prather, Brett A. Becker

Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Computing Education Conference, 2023

2022

Metacognition and Self-Regulation in Programming Education: Theories and Exemplars of Use.

Dastyni Loksa, Lauren E. Margulieux, Brett A. Becker, Michelle Craig, Paul Denny, Raymond Pettit, James Prather

ACM Trans. Comput. Educ., 2022

Scaffolding Task Planning Using Abstract Parsons Problems.

James Prather, John Homer, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, John Marsden, Garrett B. Powell

Proceedings of the Towards a Collaborative Society Through Creative Learning, 2022

Novice Reflections During the Transition to a New Programming Language.

Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Nigel Bosch, James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Jacqueline Whalley

Proceedings of the SIGCSE 2022: The 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2022

From the Horse's Mouth: The Words We Use to Teach Diverse Student Groups Across Three Continents.

Brett A. Becker, Daniel Gallagher, Paul Denny, James Prather, Colleen Gostomski, Kelli Norris, Garrett B. Powell

Proceedings of the SIGCSE 2022: The 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2022

Parsons Problems and Beyond: Systematic Literature Review and Empirical Study Designs.

Barbara J. Ericson, Paul Denny, James Prather, Rodrigo Duran, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Craig S. Miller, Briana B. Morrison, Janice L. Pearce, Susan H. Rodger

Proceedings of the 2022 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2022

Planning a Multi-institutional and Multi-national Study of the Effectiveness of Parsons Problems.

Barbara J. Ericson, Paul Denny, James Prather, Rodrigo Duran, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Craig S. Miller, Briana B. Morrison, Janice L. Pearce, Susan H. Rodger

Proceedings of the ITiCSE 2022: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Dublin, Ireland, July 8, 2022

Getting By With Help From My Friends: Group Study in Introductory Programming Understood as Socially Shared Regulation.

James Prather, Lauren E. Margulieux, Jacqueline Whalley, Paul Denny, Brent N. Reeves, Brett A. Becker, Paramvir Singh, Garrett B. Powell, Nigel Bosch

Proceedings of the ICER 2022: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, Lugano and Virtual Event, Switzerland, August 7, 2022

The Robots Are Coming: Exploring the Implications of OpenAI Codex on Introductory Programming.

James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, James Prather

Proceedings of the ACE '22: Australasian Computing Education Conference, Virtual Event, Australia, February 14, 2022

2021

From the Horse's Mouth: The Words We Use to Teach Diverse Student Groups Across Three Continents.

Brett A. Becker, Daniel Gallagher, Paul Denny, James Prather, Colleen Gostomski, Kelli Norris, Garrett B. Powell

Dataset, December, 2021

On Designing Programming Error Messages for Novices: Readability and its Constituent Factors.

Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Catherine Mooney, John Homer, Zachary C. Albrecht, Garrett B. Powell

Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

Towards Assessing the Readability of Programming Error Messages.

Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Robert Nix, Catherine Mooney

Proceedings of the ACE '21: 23rd Australasian Computing Education Conference, 2021

2020

Error Message Readability and Novice Debugging Performance.

Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2020

What Do We Think We Think We Are Doing?: Metacognition and Self-Regulation in Programming.

James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Michelle Craig, Paul Denny, Dastyni Loksa, Lauren E. Margulieux

Proceedings of the ICER 2020: International Computing Education Research Conference, 2020

2019

BEST PAPER AT SIGCSE 2019 IN THE CS EDUCATION TRACK: First things first: providing metacognitive scaffolding for interpreting problem prompts.

James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, Dastyni Loksa, Alani L. Peters, Zachary Albrecht, Krista Masci

Inroads, 2019

First Things First: Providing Metacognitive Scaffolding for Interpreting Problem Prompts.

James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, Dastyni Loksa, Alani L. Peters, Zachary Albrecht, Krista Masci

Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2019

A Closer Look at Metacognitive Scaffolding: Solving Test Cases Before Programming.

Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Zachary Albrecht, Dastyni Loksa, Raymond Pettit

Proceedings of the Koli Calling '19: 19th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, 2019

Unexpected Tokens: A Review of Programming Error Messages and Design Guidelines for the Future.

Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, Raymond Pettit, Durell Bouchard, Dennis J. Bouvier, Brian Harrington, Amir Kamil, Amey Karkare, Chris McDonald, Peter-Michael Osera, Janice L. Pearce, James Prather

Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2019

Compiler Error Messages Considered Unhelpful: The Landscape of Text-Based Programming Error Message Research.

Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, Raymond Pettit, Durell Bouchard, Dennis J. Bouvier, Brian Harrington, Amir Kamil, Amey Karkare, Chris McDonald, Peter-Michael Osera, Janice L. Pearce, James Prather

Proceedings of the Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2019

2018

Metacognitive Difficulties Faced by Novice Programmers in Automated Assessment Tools.

James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Kayla Holcomb McMurry, Alani L. Peters, John Homer, Maxine S. Cohen

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2018

2017

Trust management for cheating detection in distributed massively multiplayer online games.

James Prather, Robert Nix, Ryan Jessup

Proceedings of the 15th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games, 2017

On Novices' Interaction with Compiler Error Messages: A Human Factors Approach.

James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Kayla Holcomb McMurry, Alani L. Peters, John Homer, Nevan Simone, Maxine S. Cohen

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2017