Paul Denny

According to our database, Paul Denny authored at least 177 papers between 2008 and 2024.

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2024

A systematic review of aspect-based sentiment analysis: domains, methods, and trends.

Yan Cathy Hua, Paul Denny, Jörg Wicker, Katerina Taskova

Artif. Intell. Rev., November, 2024

Striving for Authentic and Sustained Technology Use in the Classroom: Lessons Learned from a Longitudinal Evaluation of a Sensor-Based Science Education Platform.

Yvonne Chua, Sankha Cooray, Juan Pablo Forero Cortés, Paul Denny, Sonia Dupuch, Dawn L. Garbett, Alaeddin Nassani, Jiashuo Cao, Hannah Qiao, Andrew Reis, Deviana Reis, Philipp M. Scholl, Priyashri Kamlesh Sridhar, Hussel Suriyaarachchi, Fiona Taimana, Vanessa Tang, Chamod Weerasinghe, Elliott Wen, Michelle Wu, Qin Wu, Haimo Zhang, Suranga Nanayakkara

Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact., September, 2024

ICER 2024: Call for Participation.

Paul Denny, Margaret Hamilton, Leo Porter, Briana B. Morrison

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

Anti-patterns in Students' Conditional Statements.

Etienne Naude, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

CoRR, 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

Explain in Plain Language Questions with Indic Languages: Drawbacks, Affordances, and Opportunities.

David H. Smith IV, Viraj Kumar, Paul Denny

CoRR, 2024

Prompts First, Finally.

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

CoRR, 2024

Evaluating Language Models for Generating and Judging Programming Feedback.

Charles Koutcheme, Nicola Dainese, Arto Hellas, Sami Sarsa, Juho Leinonen, Syed Ashraf, Paul Denny

CoRR, 2024

Benchmarking Educational Program Repair.

Charles Koutcheme, Nicola Dainese, Sami Sarsa, Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas, Paul Denny

CoRR, 2024

Large Language Models Meet User Interfaces: The Case of Provisioning Feedback.

Stanislav Pozdniakov, Jonathan Brazil, Solmaz Abdi, Aneesha Bakharia, Shazia Sadiq, Dragan Gasevic, Paul Denny, Hassan Khosravi

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

Generative AI for Education (GAIED): Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges.

Paul Denny, Sumit Gulwani, Neil T. Heffernan, Tanja Käser, Steven Moore, Anna N. Rafferty, Adish Singla

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

Projects and Portfolios - An Educator's Reflections on the Summative Assessments in a Game Programming Course.

Steffan Hooper, Burkhard Wünsche, Stefan Marks, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Educator's Forum, 2024

An Eye for an AI: Evaluating GPT-4o's Visual Perception Skills and Geometric Reasoning Skills Using Computer Graphics Questions.

Tony Haoran Feng, Paul Denny, Burkhard C. Wünsche, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Jacqueline Whalley

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Educator's Forum, 2024

Instructor Perceptions of AI Code Generation Tools - A Multi-Institutional Interview Study.

Judy Sheard, Paul Denny, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Lauri Malmi, Simon

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

Synthetic Students: A Comparative Study of Bug Distribution Between Large Language Models and Computing Students.

Stephen MacNeil, Magdalena Rogalska, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Arto Hellas, Xandria Crosland

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Virtual Global Computing Education Conference V. 1, 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

Integrating Natural Language Prompting Tasks in Introductory Programming Courses.

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

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Virtual Global Computing Education Conference V. 1, 2024

Advancing Automated Assessment Tools - Opportunities for Innovations in Upper-level Computing Courses: A Position Paper.

Steffan Hooper, Burkhard C. Wünsche, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny, Tony Haoran Feng

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

Evaluating Automatically Generated Contextualised Programming Exercises.

Andre Del Carpio Gutierrez, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

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

Using Large Language Models for Teaching Computing.

Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Paul Denny, Arto Hellas

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

"Sometimes You Just Gotta Risk It for the Biscuit": A Portrait of Student Risk-Taking.

Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Virtual Global Computing Education Conference V. 1, 2024

Prompting for Comprehension: Exploring the Intersection of Explain in Plain English Questions and Prompt Writing.

David H. Smith, Paul Denny, Max Fowler

Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 2024

Learnersourcing: Student-generated Content @ Scale: 2nd Annual Workshop.

Steven Moore, Anjali Singh, Xinyi Lu, Hyoungwook Jin, Hassan Khosravi, Paul Denny, Christopher Brooks, Xu Wang, Juho Kim, John C. Stamper

Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 2024

On the comprehensibility of functional decomposition: An empirical study.

Ewan D. Tempero, Paul Denny, James Finnie-Ansley, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Diana Kirk, Juho Leinonen, Asma Shakil, Robert J. Sheehan, James Tizard, Yu-Cheng Tu, Burkhard Wuensche

Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2024

Enhancing Student Engagement in Large-Scale Capstone Courses: An Experience Report.

Asma Shakil, Paul Denny

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

Open Source Language Models Can Provide Feedback: Evaluating LLMs' Ability to Help Students Using GPT-4-As-A-Judge.

Charles Koutcheme, Nicola Dainese, Sami Sarsa, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny

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

Automating Personalized Parsons Problems with Customized Contexts and Concepts.

Andre Del Carpio Gutierrez, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

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

Analyzing Students' Preferences for LLM-Generated Analogies.

Seth Bernstein, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Matt Littlefield, Arto Hellas, Stephen MacNeil

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

"Like a Nesting Doll": Analyzing Recursion Analogies Generated by CS Students Using Large Language Models.

Seth Bernstein, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Lauren Kan, Arto Hellas, Matt Littlefield, Sami Sarsa, Stephen MacNeil

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

Desirable Characteristics for AI Teaching Assistants in Programming Education.

Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, Jaromír Savelka, Leo Porter, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

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

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Exploring Diagram and Video-Based OOP Exercises to Counter LLM Over-Reliance.

Bruno Pereira Cipriano, Pedro Alves, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the Technology Enhanced Learning for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education, 2024

CodeAid: Evaluating a Classroom Deployment of an LLM-based Programming Assistant that Balances Student and Educator Needs.

Majeed Kazemitabaar, Runlong Ye, Xiaoning Wang, Austin Zachary Henley, Paul Denny, Michelle Craig, Tovi Grossman

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

Abstract Meaning Representation-Based Logic-Driven Data Augmentation for Logical Reasoning.

Qiming Bao, Alex Yuxuan Peng, Zhenyun Deng, Wanjun Zhong, Gaël Gendron, Timothy Pistotti, Neset Tan, Nathan Young, Yang Chen, Yonghua Zhu, Paul Denny, Michael Witbrock, Jiamou Liu

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

Patterns of Student Help-Seeking When Using a Large Language Model-Powered Programming Assistant.

Brad Sheese, Mark H. Liffiton, Jaromír Savelka, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the 26th Australasian Computing Education Conference, 2024

Decoding Logic Errors: A Comparative Study on Bug Detection by Students and Large Language Models.

Stephen MacNeil, Paul Denny, Andrew Tran, Juho Leinonen, Seth Bernstein, Arto Hellas, Sami Sarsa, Joanne Kim

Proceedings of the 26th Australasian Computing Education Conference, 2024

Educator Experiences of Low Overhead Student Project Risk Management.

Diana Kirk, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Ewan D. Tempero, Tyne Crow, Paul Denny, Allan Fowler, Steffan Hooper, Andrew Meads, Asma Shakil, Paramvir Singh, Craig J. Sutherland, Yi-Chien Vita Tsai, Burkhard Wuensche

Proceedings of the 26th Australasian Computing Education Conference, 2024

Evaluating LLM-generated Worked Examples in an Introductory Programming Course.

Breanna Jury, Angela Lorusso, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

Proceedings of the 26th Australasian Computing Education Conference, 2024

More Than Meets the AI: Evaluating the performance of GPT-4 on Computer Graphics assessment questions.

Tony Haoran Feng, Paul Denny, Burkhard Wuensche, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Steffan Hooper

Proceedings of the 26th Australasian Computing Education Conference, 2024

Enhancing Student Performance Prediction on Learnersourced Questions with SGNN-LLM Synergy.

Lin Ni, Sijie Wang, Zeyu Zhang, Xiaoxuan Li, Xianda Zheng, Paul Denny, Jiamou Liu

Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024

2023

ICER 2023 Recap.

Diana Franklin, Kathi Fisler, Paul Denny, Margaret Hamilton

ACM SIGCSE Bull., October, 2023

Gamification improves the quality of student peer code review.

Theresia Devi Indriasari, Paul Denny, Danielle M. Lottridge, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

Comput. Sci. Educ., July, 2023

Evaluating a large language model's ability to solve programming exercises from an introductory bioinformatics course.

Stephen R. Piccolo, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Samuel H. Payne, Perry G. Ridge

PLoS Comput. Biol., 2023

A Systematic Review of Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA): Domains, Methods, and Trends.

Yan Cathy Hua, Paul Denny, Katerina Taskova, Jörg Wicker

CoRR, 2023

ChaTA: Towards an Intelligent Question-Answer Teaching Assistant using Open-Source LLMs.

Yann Hicke, Anmol Agarwal, Qianou Ma, Paul Denny

CoRR, 2023

Efficient Classification of Student Help Requests in Programming Courses Using Large Language Models.

Jaromír Savelka, Paul Denny, Mark H. Liffiton, Brad Sheese

CoRR, 2023

Exploring Self-Reinforcement for Improving Learnersourced Multiple-Choice Question Explanations with Large Language Models.

Qiming Bao, Juho Leinonen, Alex Yuxuan Peng, Wanjun Zhong, Tim Pistotti, Alice Huang, Paul Denny, Michael Witbrock, Jiamou Liu

CoRR, 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

Human vs Machine: Comparison of Student-generated and AI-generated Educational Content.

Paul Denny, Hassan Khosravi, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Sami Sarsa

CoRR, 2023

Many bioinformatics programming tasks can be automated with ChatGPT.

Stephen R. Piccolo, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Samuel H. Payne, Perry G. Ridge

CoRR, 2023

Learnersourcing in the age of AI: Student, educator and machine partnerships for content creation.

Hassan Khosravi, Paul Denny, Steven Moore, John C. Stamper

Comput. Educ. Artif. Intell., 2023

Lessons Learned From Four Computing Education Crowdsourcing Systems.

Nea Pirttinen, Paul Denny, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen

IEEE Access, 2023

G is for Generalisation: Predicting Student Success from Keystrokes.

Zac Pullar-Strecker, Filipe Dwan Pereira, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Juho Leinonen

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

Experiences from Using Code Explanations Generated by Large Language Models in a Web Software Development E-Book.

Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Tran, Arto Hellas, Joanne Kim, Sami Sarsa, Paul Denny, Seth Bernstein, Juho Leinonen

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

Automatically Generating CS Learning Materials with Large Language Models.

Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Tran, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Joanne Kim, Arto Hellas, Seth Bernstein, Sami Sarsa

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

Conversing with Copilot: Exploring Prompt Engineering for Solving CS1 Problems Using Natural Language.

Paul Denny, Viraj Kumar, Nasser Giacaman

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

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

CodeHelp: Using Large Language Models with Guardrails for Scalable Support in Programming Classes.

Mark H. Liffiton, Brad E. Sheese, Jaromír Savelka, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the 23rd Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, 2023

Using Sensor-Based Programming to Improve Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectancy for Students from Underrepresented Groups.

Hussel Suriyaarachchi, Alaeddin Nassani, Paul Denny, Suranga Nanayakkara

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

Comparing Code Explanations Created by Students and Large Language Models.

Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, Sami Sarsa, Seth Bernstein, Joanne Kim, Andrew Tran, Arto Hellas

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

Leveraging Large Language Models for Analysis of Student Course Feedback.

Zixuan Wang, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM India Compute Conference, 2023

Understanding Student Evaluation of Teaching in Computer Science Courses.

Zixuan Wang, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM India Compute Conference, 2023

Impacting the Submission Timing of Student Work Using Gamification.

Theresia Devi Indriasari, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Danielle M. Lottridge

Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM India Compute Conference, 2023

The Forum Factor: Exploring the Link between Online Discourse and Student Achievement in Higher Education.

Darryn He, Hannah Steffes, Samin Yasar, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Juho Leinonen

Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM India Compute Conference, 2023

Exploring How Novice Programming Students Have Experienced Digital Technology.

Stefan Dyer, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM India Compute Conference, 2023

Empowering Education with LLMs - The Next-Gen Interface and Content Generation.

Steven Moore, Richard Jiarui Tong, Anjali Singh, Zitao Liu, Xiangen Hu, Yu Lu, Joleen Liang, Chen Cao, Hassan Khosravi, Paul Denny, Christopher Brooks, John C. Stamper

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners, Doctoral Consortium and Blue Sky, 2023

Automated Program Repair Using Generative Models for Code Infilling.

Charles Koutcheme, Sami Sarsa, Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 24th International Conference, 2023

Metacodenition: Scaffolding the Problem-Solving Process for Novice Programmers.

Yulia Pechorina, Keith Anderson, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Computing Education Conference, 2023

Automated Assessment: Experiences From the Trenches.

Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Ewan D. Tempero, Nalin A. G. Arachchilage, Angela Chang, Paul Denny, Allan Fowler, Nasser Giacaman, Igor Kontorovich, Danielle M. Lottridge, Sathiamoorthy Manoharan, Shyamli Sindhwani, Paramvir Singh, Ulrich Speidel, Sudeep Stephen, Valerio Terragni, Jacqueline Whalley, Burkhard Wuensche, Xinfeng Ye

Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Computing Education Conference, 2023

Exploring the Difficulty of Faded Parsons Problems for Programming Education.

Flynn Fromont, Hiruna Jayamanne, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Computing Education Conference, 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

The Human Factors Impact of Programming Error Messages (Dagstuhl Seminar 22052).

Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, Janet Siegmund, Andreas Stefik

Dagstuhl Reports, 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

Scratch and Sense: Using Real-Time Sensor Data to Motivate Students Learning Scratch.

Hussel Suriyaarachchi, Paul Denny, Suranga Nanayakkara

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

Play Your Cards Right: Using Quantitative Card-Sort Data to Examine Students' Pattern-Like Concepts.

James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

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

A Comparison of Immediate and Scheduled Feedback in Introductory Programming Projects.

Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Jacqueline Whalley

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

Learnersourcing: Student-generated Content @ Scale.

Steven Moore, John C. Stamper, Christopher Brooks, Paul Denny, Hassan Khosravi

Proceedings of the L@S'22: Ninth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, New York City, NY, USA, June 1, 2022

Robosourcing Educational Resources - Leveraging Large Language Models for Learnersourcing.

Paul Denny, Sami Sarsa, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen

Proceedings of the Workshop on Learnersourcing: Student-Generated Content @ Scale 2022 co-located with 9th ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S 2022), 2022

A Resource to Support Novices Refactoring Conditional Statements.

Cruz Izu, Paul Denny, Sayoni Roy

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

Automatic Generation of Programming Exercises and Code Explanations Using Large Language Models.

Sami Sarsa, Paul Denny, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen

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

Primary School Students Programming with Real-Time Environmental Sensor Data.

Hussel Suriyaarachchi, Paul Denny, Juan Pablo Forero Cortés, Chamod Weerasinghe, Suranga Nanayakkara

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

DeepQR: Neural-Based Quality Ratings for Learnersourced Multiple-Choice Questions.

Lin Ni, Qiming Bao, Xiaoxuan Li, Qianqian Qi, Paul Denny, Jim Warren, Michael Witbrock, Jiamou Liu

Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 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

A Game-Based Approach for Teaching Algorithms and Data Structures using Visualizations.

Simon Su, Edward Zhang, Paul Denny, Nasser Giacaman

Proceedings of the SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2021

Exploring Personalization of Gamification in an Introductory Programming Course.

Mitchell Rogers, Wendy Yao, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Juho Leinonen, Danielle M. Lottridge, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2021

Scientific Collaboration Network Analysis for Computing Education Conferences.

James Zhang, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny, Jacqueline Whalley

Proceedings of the ITiCSE '21: Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V.1, Virtual Event, Germany, June 26, 2021

Investigating Accuracy and Perceived Value of Feedback in Peer Code Review Using Gamification.

Theresia Devi Indriasari, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the ITiCSE '21: Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V.1, Virtual Event, Germany, June 26, 2021

When Wrong is Right: The Instructional Power of Multiple Conceptions.

Lauren E. Margulieux, Paul Denny, Kathryn Cunningham, Michael Deutsch, R. Benjamin Shapiro

Proceedings of the ICER 2021: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2021

A Semblance of Similarity: Student Categorisation of Simple Algorithmic Problem Statements.

James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

Proceedings of the ICER 2021: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 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

Who am I? - Development and Analysis of an Interactive 3D Game for Psychometric Testing.

Aorthi Afroza, Kelsey Murray, Burkhard C. Wünsche, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the ACSW '21: 2021 Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, 2021

Sensor-Based Interactive Worksheets to Support Guided Scientific Inquiry.

Jiashuo Cao, Samantha W. T. Chan, Dawn L. Garbett, Paul Denny, Alaeddin Nassani, Philipp M. Scholl, Suranga Nanayakkara

Proceedings of the IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children, 2021

The Impact of Multiple Choice Question Design on Predictions of Performance.

Casey Wong, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Jacqueline Whalley

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

Lecture Recordings, Viewing Habits, and Performance in an Introductory Programming Course.

Valerie Picardo, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

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

Exploring the Effects of Contextualized Problem Descriptions on Problem Solving.

Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Jacqueline Whalley

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

Improving Student Peer Code Review Using Gamification.

Theresia Devi Indriasari, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny

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

Promoting Early Engagement with Programming Assignments Using Scheduled Automated Feedback.

Paul Denny, Jacqueline Whalley, Juho Leinonen

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

A Review of Peer Code Review in Higher Education.

Theresia Devi Indriasari, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny

ACM Trans. Comput. Educ., 2020

Gamification of student peer review in education: A systematic literature review.

Theresia Devi Indriasari, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny

Educ. Inf. Technol., 2020

Mathematics, Computer Science and Career Inclinations - A Multi-Institutional Exploration.

Jacqueline Whalley, Andrew Petersen, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the Koli Calling '20: 20th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, 2020

CompareCFG: Providing Visual Feedback on Code Quality Using Control Flow Graphs.

Lucy Jiang, Robert Rewcastle, Paul Denny, Ewan D. Tempero

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

Nationality and Gender Biases in Multicultural Online Learning Environments: The Effects of Anonymity.

Gabriela Morales-Martinez, Paul Latreille, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020

A Miss is as Good as a Mile: Off-By-One Errors and Arrays in an Introductory Programming Course.

Liam Rigby, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

Proceedings of the ACE 2020, 2020

A Review of Research on Parsons Problems.

Yuemeng Du, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the ACE 2020, 2020

Evaluating an Interactive Tool for Teaching Design Patterns.

Zain Azimullah, Young Sun An, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the ACE 2020, 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

A discursive question: Supporting student-authored multiple choice questions through peer-learning software in non-STEMM disciplines.

Stephen Snow, Adriana Wilde, Paul Denny, m. c. schraefel

Br. J. Educ. Technol., 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

On the Fairness of Multiple-Variant Multiple-Choice Examinations.

Paul Denny, Sathiamoorthy Manoharan, Ulrich Speidel, Giovanni Russello, Angela Chang

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

Research This! Questions that Computing Educators Most Want Computing Education Researchers to Answer.

Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Michelle Craig, Greg Wilson, Piotr Banaszkiewicz

Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2019

Four Million Questions and a Few Answers: Lessons From Research on Student-Generated Resources.

Paul Denny

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Global Computing Education, 2019

Towards a Framework for Teaching Debugging.

Chen Li, Emily Chan, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Ewan D. Tempero

Proceedings of the Twenty-First Australasian Computing Education Conference, 2019

Mastery Learning in Computer Science Education.

James Garner, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

Proceedings of the Twenty-First Australasian Computing Education Conference, 2019

Resources and Support for the Implementation of Digital Technologies in New Zealand Schools.

Tyne Crow, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Burkhard C. Wünsche, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the Twenty-First Australasian Computing Education Conference, 2019

2018

Transitioning from Block-Based to Text-Based Programming Languages.

Luke Moors, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering, 2018

HandsUp: An In-Class Question Posing Tool.

Harry Jackson, Angad Nayyar, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Ewan D. Tempero

Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering, 2018

Ladebug: an online tool to help novice programmers improve their debugging skills.

Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Emma McMillan, Elizabeth Stevenson, Ewan D. Tempero, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2018

Improving complex task performance using a sequence of simple practice tasks.

Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Michelle Craig, Andrew Petersen

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2018

Objects Count so Count Objects!

Ewan D. Tempero, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Ralph

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

Empirical Support for a Causal Relationship Between Gamification and Learning Outcomes.

Paul Denny, Fiona McDonald, Ruth Empson, Philip Kelly, Andrew Petersen

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018

Common logic errors made by novice programmers.

Andrew Ettles, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Computing Education Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, January 30, 2018

2017

Examining a Student-Generated Question Activity Using Random Topic Assignment.

Paul Denny, Ewan D. Tempero, Dawn Garbett, Andrew Petersen

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2017

2016

Employing Multiple-Answer Multiple Choice Questions.

Andrew Petersen, Michelle Craig, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2016

Inferring Student Coding Goals Using Abstract Syntax Trees.

Paul Freeman, Ian Watson, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development, 2016

2015

Analyzing Student Work Patterns Using Programming Exercise Data.

Jaime Spacco, Paul Denny, Brad Richards, David Babcock, David Hovemeyer, James Moscola, Robert C. Duvall

Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2015

Generating Practice Questions as a Preparation Strategy for Introductory Programming Exams.

Paul Denny

Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2015

Measuring the effect of inventing practice exercises on learning in an introductory programming course.

Paul Denny, Diana Cukierman, Jonathan Bhaskar

Proceedings of the 15th Koli Calling Conference on Computing Education Research, 2015

2014

Enhancing syntax error messages appears ineffectual.

Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Dave Carpenter

Proceedings of the Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Conference 2014, 2014

2013

CloudCoder: building a community for creating, assigning, evaluating and sharing programming exercises (abstract only).

David Hovemeyer, Matthew Hertz, Paul Denny, Jaime Spacco, Andrei Papancea, John C. Stamper, Kelly Rivers

Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2013

On the differences between correct student solutions.

Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny, Diana Kirk, Ewan D. Tempero, Se-Young Yu

Proceedings of the Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education conference 2013, 2013

The effect of virtual achievements on student engagement.

Paul Denny

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013

2012

A case study of multi-institutional contributing-student pedagogy.

Paul Denny, Diana Cukierman, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Ewan D. Tempero

Comput. Sci. Educ., 2012

The impact of question generation activities on performance.

Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Daniel J. Bertinshaw, Paul Denny, Beryl Plimmer, Robert J. Sheehan

Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, 2012

Activities, affordances and attitude: how student-generated questions assist learning.

Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny, Beryl Plimmer, Robert J. Sheehan

Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2012

All syntax errors are not equal.

Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Ewan D. Tempero

Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2012

2011

CodeWrite: supporting student-driven practice of java.

Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Ewan D. Tempero, Jacob Hendrickx

Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, 2011

Supporting student-generated free-response questions.

Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny, Beryl Plimmer, Daniel J. Bertinshaw

Proceedings of the 16th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2011

Understanding the syntax barrier for novices.

Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Ewan D. Tempero, Jacob Hendrickx

Proceedings of the 16th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2011

PeerWise: exploring conflicting efficacy studies.

Paul Denny, Brian Hanks, Beth Simon, Spencer Bagley

Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Computing Education Research, 2011

2010

Constructive evaluation: a pedagogy of student-contributed assessment.

Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny

Comput. Sci. Educ., 2010

Peerwise: replication study of a student-collaborative self-testing web service in a u.s. setting.

Paul Denny, Brian Hanks, Beth Simon

Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, 2010

Self-predicted and actual performance in an introductory programming course.

Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, John Hamer, Dana B. Dahlstrom, Helen C. Purchase

Proceedings of the 15th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2010

Motivating online collaborative learning.

Paul Denny

Proceedings of the 15th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2010

2009

A simple framework for interactive games in CS1.

Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny

Proceedings of the 40th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2009

Coverage of course topics in a student generated MCQ repository.

Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, John Hamer, Helen C. Purchase

Proceedings of the 14th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2009

Quality of peer assessment in CS1.

John Hamer, Helen C. Purchase, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Computing Education Research, 2009

2008

PeerWise.

Paul Denny, John Hamer, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Helen C. Purchase

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computing Education Research, 2008

Student use of the PeerWise system.

Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, John Hamer

Proceedings of the 13th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2008

Evaluating a new exam question: Parsons problems.

Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Beth Simon

Proceedings of the International Computing Education Research Workshop, 2008

PeerWise: students sharing their multiple choice questions.

Paul Denny, John Hamer, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Helen C. Purchase

Proceedings of the International Computing Education Research Workshop, 2008