Brett A. Becker

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2006-2024
Publications (10 Years): 153

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Seth Poulsen, Sami Sarsa, James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Brett A. Becker, Arto Hellas, Paul Denny, Brent N. Reeves
Solving Proof Block Problems Using Large Language Models. SIGCSE (1) (2024)
Keith Quille, Brett A. Becker, Roisin Faherty, Damien Gordon, Miriam Harte, Svetlana Hensman, Markus Hofmann, Keith Nolan, Ciarán O'Leary
LLMs in Open and Closed Book Examinations in a Final Year Applied Machine Learning Course (Early Findings). ITiCSE (2) (2024)
Paul Denny, David H. Smith IV, Max Fowler, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen
Explaining Code with a Purpose: An Integrated Approach for Developing Code Comprehension and Prompting Skills. CoRR (2024)
James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Arisoa S. Randrianasolo, Brett A. Becker, Bailey Kimmel, Jared Wright, Ben Briggs
The Widening Gap: The Benefits and Harms of Generative AI for Novice Programmers. CoRR (2024)
Keith Nolan, Amanda O'Farrell, Keith Quille, Karen Nolan, Roisin Faherty, Rajesh Jaiswal, Svetlana Hensman, Michael Collins, Miriam Harte, Brett A. Becker
Enabling Digital Technology in Primary Schools. ITiCSE (2) (2024)
Brent N. Reeves, James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Brett A. Becker, Andrew Luxton-Reilly
Prompts First, Finally. CoRR (2024)
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
Interactions with Prompt Problems: A New Way to Teach Programming with Large Language Models. CoRR (2024)
Stephen MacNeil, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Natalie Kiesler, Arto Hellas, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Michel Wermelinger, Karen Reid
Discussing the Changing Landscape of Generative AI in Computing Education. SIGCSE (2) (2024)
Sally Hamouda, Linda Marshall, Kate Sanders, Ethel Tshukudu, Oluwatoyin Adelakun-Adeyemo, Brett A. Becker, Emma R. Dodoo, G. Ayorkor Korsah, Sandani Luvhengo, Oluwakemi Ola, Jack Parkinson, Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi
Working Group Proposal: Computing Education in Africa. ITiCSE (2) (2024)
Raina Mason, Simon, Brett A. Becker, Tom Crick, James H. Davenport
A Global Survey of Introductory Programming Courses. SIGCSE (1) (2024)
James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Garrett B. Powell, James Finnie-Ansley, Eddie Antonio Santos
"It's Weird That it Knows What I Want": Usability and Interactions with Copilot for Novice Programmers. ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact. 31 (1) (2024)
James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Arisoa S. Randrianasolo, Brett A. Becker, Bailey Kimmel, Jared Wright, Ben Briggs
The Widening Gap: The Benefits and Harms of Generative AI for Novice Programmers. ICER (1) (2024)
Sherif G. Aly, Brett A. Becker, Amruth N. Kumar, Rajendra K. Raj
Computer Science Curricula 2023 (CS2023): Rising to the Challenges of Change in AI, Security, and Society. ITiCSE (2) (2024)
Paul Denny, David H. Smith, Max Fowler, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen
Explaining Code with a Purpose: An Integrated Approach for Developing Code Comprehension and Prompting Skills. ITiCSE (1) (2024)
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
Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI. Commun. ACM 67 (2) (2024)
Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Thezyrie Amarouche, Brett A. Becker, Brent N. Reeves
Prompt Problems: A New Programming Exercise for the Generative AI Era. SIGCSE (1) (2024)
Joyce Mahon, Brian Mac Namee, Brett A. Becker
Guidelines for the Evolving Role of Generative AI in Introductory Programming Based on Emerging Practice. ITiCSE (1) (2024)
Lauren E. Margulieux, James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Brett A. Becker, Gozde Cetin Uzun, Dastyni Loksa, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny
Self-Regulation, Self-Efficacy, and Fear of Failure Interactions with How Novices Use LLMs to Solve Programming Problems. ITiCSE (1) (2024)
Brett A. Becker
Integrating Society, Ethics and the Computing Profession With Computer Science Curricula 2023. ITiCSE (2) (2024)
Keith Quille, Brett A. Becker, Lidia Vidal-Meliá
The European Commission and AI: Guidelines, Acts and Plans Impacting the Teaching of AI and Teaching with AI. SIGCSE (2) (2023)
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
Transformed by Transformers: Navigating the AI Coding Revolution for Computing Education: An ITiCSE Working Group Conducted by Humans. ITiCSE (2) (2023)
Shamima Nasrin Runa, Andrew McCartan, Brett A. Becker, Catherine Mooney
Understanding a post-COVID Drop in the Belongingness of Minoritised Men in an Undergraduate Computer Science Course. CompEd (2) (2023)
Rajendra K. Raj, Brett A. Becker, Michael Goldweber, Pankaj Jalote
Perspectives on Computer Science Curricula 2023 (CS2023). CompEd (2) (2023)
Joyce Mahon, Brian Mac Namee, Brett A. Becker
No More Pencils No More Books: Capabilities of Generative AI on Irish and UK Computer Science School Leaving Examinations. UKICER (2023)
Brett A. Becker, Venkatesh Choppella
ACM CompEd Resumes After Two-year Delay! ACM SIGCSE Bull. 55 (1) (2023)
Oladele O. Campbell, Oluwatoyin Adelakun-Adeyemo, Fatimah Yetunde Akinrinola, Patience Chewachong Akih, Ethel Tshukudu, Brett A. Becker
The Impacts of a Constructionist Scratch Programming Pedagogy on Student Achievement with a Focus on Gender. CompEd (1) (2023)
Shamima Nasrin Runa, Anna Markella Antoniadi, Brett A. Becker, Catherine Mooney
Student Sense of Belonging: The Role of Gender Identity and Minoritisation in Computing and Other Sciences. ACE (2023)
Eddie Antonio Santos, Ioannis Karvelas, Brett A. Becker
Applying Software Engineering Anti-patterns to Programming Error Messages. SIGCSE (2) (2023)
Ioannis Karvelas, Joe Dillane, Brett A. Becker
Programmers' Views on IDE Compilation Mechanisms. CompEd (1) (2023)
Seán Russell, Simon Caton, Brett A. Becker
Online Programming Exams - An Experience Report. ITiCSE (1) (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, Jaromír Savelka
The Robots are Here: Navigating the Generative AI Revolution in Computing Education. CoRR (2023)
Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Thezyrie Amarouche, Brett A. Becker, Brent N. Reeves
Prompt Problems: A New Programming Exercise for the Generative AI Era. CoRR (2023)
Brett A. Becker, Megan Maley, Daniel Gallagher
Computing Crossroads. Inroads 14 (4) (2023)
Dennis J. Bouvier, Ellie Lovellette, Eddie Antonio Santos, Brett A. Becker, Tom Crick, Venu G. Dasigi, Jack Forden, Olga Glebova, Swaroop Joshi, Stan Kurkovsky, Seán Russell
Teaching Students To Use Programming Error Messages. CompEd (2) (2023)
Brett A. Becker, Megan Maley, Daniel Gallagher
CONVERSATIONS: Computing Crossroads. Inroads 14 (3) (2023)
James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Garrett Powell, James Finnie-Ansley, Eddie Antonio Santos
"It's Weird That it Knows What I Want": Usability and Interactions with Copilot for Novice Programmers. CoRR (2023)
Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Thezyrie Amarouche, Brett A. Becker, Brent N. Reeves
Promptly: Using Prompt Problems to Teach Learners How to Effectively Utilize AI Code Generators. CoRR (2023)
Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas, Sami Sarsa, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker
Using Large Language Models to Enhance Programming Error Messages. SIGCSE (1) (2023)
Roisin Faherty, Karen Nolan, Keith Quille, Brett A. Becker, Elizabeth Oldham
Brief History of K-12 Computer Science Education in Ireland. Int. J. Comput. Sci. Educ. Sch. 6 (1) (2023)
James Prather, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Robert Nix, Brent N. Reeves, Arisoa S. Randrianasolo, Garrett Powell
First Steps Towards Predicting the Readability of Programming Error Messages. SIGCSE (1) (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 Petersen, Raymond Pettit, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromír Savelka
The Robots Are Here: Navigating the Generative AI Revolution in Computing Education. ITiCSE-WGR (2023)
Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, James Finnie-Ansley, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, James Prather, Eddie Antonio Santos
Programming Is Hard - Or at Least It Used to Be: Educational Opportunities and Challenges of AI Code Generation. SIGCSE (1) (2023)
Amruth N. Kumar, Brett A. Becker, Marcelo Pias, Michael Oudshoorn, Pankaj Jalote, Christian Servin, Sherif G. Aly, Richard L. Blumenthal, Susan L. Epstein, Monica D. Anderson
A Combined Knowledge and Competency (CKC) Model for Computer Science Curricula. Inroads 14 (3) (2023)
Shamima Nasrin Runa, Andrew McCartan, Brett A. Becker, Catherine Mooney
Sense of Belonging of Undergraduate Computing Students: A Comparative Analysis of University Entry Routes. UKICER (2023)
Eddie Antonio Santos, Prajish Prasad, Brett A. Becker
Always Provide Context: The Effects of Code Context on Programming Error Message Enhancement. CompEd (1) (2023)
Karen Nolan, Roisin Faherty, Keith Quille, Keith Nolan, Amanda O'Farrell, Brett A. Becker
CS Outreach to Inform Secondary School Students' Perceptions of CS: Initial Findings. WiPSCE (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
Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI. CoRR (2023)
Brett A. Becker
Announcing the ACM SIGCSE 2024 Award Winners. ACM SIGCSE Bull. 55 (4) (2023)
Brett A. Becker
Announcing the ACM SIGCSE Broadening Participation in Computing Education Award. ACM SIGCSE Bull. 55 (3) (2023)
Brett A. Becker, Richard Blumenthal, Mikey Goldweber, James Prather, Susan Reiser, Michelle Trim, Titus Winters
Community Input for CS2023: Society, Ethics and Professionalism. SIGCSE (2) (2023)
Christian Servin, Brett A. Becker, Eric Eaton, Amruth N. Kumar
Fuzzy Logic++: Towards Developing Fuzzy Education Curricula Using ACM/IEEE/AAAI CS2023. NAFIPS (2023)
James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Eddie Antonio Santos, James Prather, Brett A. Becker
My AI Wants to Know if This Will Be on the Exam: Testing OpenAI's Codex on CS2 Programming Exercises. ACE (2023)
Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen, James Prather
Chat Overflow: Artificially Intelligent Models for Computing Education - renAIssance or apocAIypse? ITiCSE (1) (2023)
Alison Clear, Brett A. Becker, Jill Denner, Dan Garcia, Rodrigo Duran, Yolanda A. Rankin, Judy Sheard, Adrienne Decker
SIGCSE Board DEIA Update. ACM SIGCSE Bull. 55 (2) (2023)
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
The Implications of Large Language Models for CS Teachers and Students. SIGCSE (2) (2023)
Brent N. Reeves, Sami Sarsa, James Prather, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Arto Hellas, Bailey Kimmel, Garrett Powell, Juho Leinonen
Evaluating the Performance of Code Generation Models for Solving Parsons Problems With Small Prompt Variations. ITiCSE (1) (2023)
Catherine Mooney, Fiona McNeill, Brett A. Becker
Evaluating the Sense of Belonging of Undergraduate Computing Students in the UK and Ireland. UKICER (2023)
Simon Caton, Seán Russell, Brett A. Becker
What Fails Once, Fails Again: Common Repeated Errors in Introductory Programming Automated Assessments. SIGCSE (1) (2022)
Joe Dillane, Ioannis Karvelas, Brett A. Becker
Computing Competencies for Engineering Students. UKICER (2022)
Joyce Mahon, Keith Quille, Brian Mac Namee, Brett A. Becker
A Novel Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Course for Secondary School Students. SIGCSE (2) (2022)
Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, Janet Siegmund, Andreas Stefik
The Human Factors Impact of Programming Error Messages (Dagstuhl Seminar 22052). Dagstuhl Reports 12 (1) (2022)
Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, James Finnie-Ansley, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, James Prather, Eddie Antonio Santos
Programming Is Hard - Or at Least It Used to Be: Educational Opportunities And Challenges of AI Code Generation. CoRR (2022)
James Prather, Lauren E. Margulieux, Jacqueline Whalley, Paul Denny, Brent N. Reeves, Brett A. Becker, Paramvir Singh, Garrett B. Powell, Nigel Bosch
Getting By With Help From My Friends: Group Study in Introductory Programming Understood as Socially Shared Regulation. ICER (1) (2022)
Keith Quille, Roisin Faherty, Brett A. Becker
Building K-12 Teacher Capacity to Expand Uptake in a National CS Curriculum. SIGCSE (2) (2022)
Timothy Kluthe, Brett A. Becker, Christopher D. Hundhausen, Ciera Jaspan, Andreas Stefik, Thomas Zimmermann
Toward Scientific Evidence Standards in Empirical Computer Science (Dagstuhl Seminar 22442). Dagstuhl Reports 12 (10) (2022)
Ioannis Karvelas, Brett A. Becker
Sympathy for the (Novice) Developer: Programming Activity When Compilation Mechanism Varies. SIGCSE (1) (2022)
James Prather, John Homer, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, John Marsden, Garrett B. Powell
Scaffolding Task Planning Using Abstract Parsons Problems. WCCE (2022)
Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas, Sami Sarsa, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker
Using Large Language Models to Enhance Programming Error Messages. CoRR (2022)
Brett A. Becker
It's a Two-Way Street: From the Computing Classroom to Computing Education Research. COMPUTE (2022)
Joyce Mahon, Brett A. Becker, Brian Mac Namee
AI and ML in School Level Computing Education: Who, What and Where? AICS (2022)
James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, James Prather
The Robots Are Coming: Exploring the Implications of OpenAI Codex on Introductory Programming. ACE (2022)
Paul E. Dickson, Tim D. Richards, Brett A. Becker
Experiences Implementing and Utilizing a Notional Machine in the Classroom. SIGCSE (1) (2022)
Brett A. Becker, Keith Quille, Mikko-Jussi Laakso
ITiCSE 2022 call for participation: Fáilte go hÉirinn! ACM SIGCSE Bull. 54 (2) (2022)
Wouter Groeneveld, Brett A. Becker, Joost Vennekens
How Creatively Are We Teaching and Assessing Creativity in Computing Education: A Systematic Literature Review. SIGCSE (1) (2022)
Ioannis Karvelas, Joe Dillane, Brett A. Becker
IDE Interactions of Novices Transitioning Between Programming Environments. WCCE (2022)
Adrienne Decker, Mark Allen Weiss, Brett A. Becker, John P. Dougherty, Stephen H. Edwards, Joanna Goode, Amy J. Ko, Monica M. McGill, Briana B. Morrison, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Yolanda A. Rankin, Monique Ross, Jan Vahrenhold, David Weintrop, Aman Yadav
Piecing Together the Next 15 Years of Computing Education Research Workshop Report. SIGCSE (2) (2022)
Brett A. Becker, Daniel Gallagher, Paul Denny, James Prather, Colleen Gostomski, Kelli Norris, Garrett B. Powell
From the Horse's Mouth: The Words We Use to Teach Diverse Student Groups Across Three Continents. SIGCSE (1) (2022)
Shamima Nasrin Runa, Brett A. Becker, Catherine Mooney
Variations in Sense of Belonging in Undergraduate Computing Students Through the COVID-19 Pandemic. UKICER (2022)
Dastyni Loksa, Lauren E. Margulieux, Brett A. Becker, Michelle Craig, Paul Denny, Raymond Pettit, James Prather
Metacognition and Self-Regulation in Programming Education: Theories and Exemplars of Use. ACM Trans. Comput. Educ. 22 (4) (2022)
Brett A. Becker, Keith Quille
ITiCSE 2022 Recap: Boots on the Ground! ACM SIGCSE Bull. 54 (4) (2022)
Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Nigel Bosch, James Prather, Brent Reeves, Jacqueline Whalley
Novice Reflections During the Transition to a New Programming Language. SIGCSE (1) (2022)
Roisin Faherty, Keith Quille, Brett A. Becker
Comparing the Programming Self-Efficacy of Teachers Using CSLINC to Those Teaching the Formal National Curriculum. ITiCSE (2) (2022)
Karen Nolan, Keith Quille, Brett A. Becker
CSLINC a Nationwide CS MOOC for Second-level Students. SIGCSE (2) (2022)
Catherine Mooney, Brett A. Becker
Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on computing students' sense of belonging. Inroads 12 (2) (2021)
Brett A. Becker, Keith Quille
ITiCSE 2022 preview. ACM SIGCSE Bull. 53 (4) (2021)
Carsten Schulte, Brett A. Becker
ITiCSE 2021 recap. ACM SIGCSE Bull. 53 (3) (2021)
Carsten Schulte, Brett A. Becker
ITiCSE 2021 preview. ACM SIGCSE Bull. 53 (2) (2021)
Ioannis Karvelas, Joe Dillane, Brett A. Becker
Exploring Novice Programming Behavior over Time. ITiCSE (Working Group Reports) (2021)
Brett A. Becker, Daniel Gallagher
Computing Crossroads: Career Diversity Highlighting Computing's Natural Diversity. ITiCSE (Working Group Reports) (2021)
Brett A. Becker, Amber Settle, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Briana B. Morrison, Cary Laxer
Expanding Opportunities: Assessing and Addressing Geographic Diversity at the SIGCSE Technical Symposium. SIGCSE (2021)
Brett A. Becker, Catherine Mooney, Amruth N. Kumar, Seán Russell
A Simple, Language-Independent Approach to Identifying Potentially At-Risk Introductory Programming Students. ACE (2021)
Keith Quille, Keith Nolan, Brett A. Becker, Seán McHugh
Developing an Open-Book Online Exam for Final Year Students. ITiCSE (2021)
Catherine Mooney, Brett A. Becker
Investigating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Computing Students' Sense of Belonging. SIGCSE (2021)
Neil Brown, Charalampos Kyfonidis, Pierre Weill-Tessier, Brett A. Becker, Joe Dillane, Michael Kölling
A Frame of Mind: Frame-based vs. Text-based Editing. UKICER (2021)
Brett A. Becker
The Roles of Computing Terminology in Non-Computing Disciplines. ITiCSE (Working Group Reports) (2021)
Brett A. Becker
What does saying that 'programming is hard' really say, and about whom? Commun. ACM 64 (8) (2021)
Roisin Faherty, Keith Quille, Rebecca Vivian, Monica M. McGill, Brett A. Becker, Karen Nolan
Comparing Programming Self-Esteem of Upper Secondary School Teachers to CS1 Students. ITiCSE (2021)
Joe Dillane, Ioannis Karvelas, Brett A. Becker
Portraits of Programmer Behavior in a Frame-Based Language. CSERC (2021)
Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Catherine Mooney, John Homer, Zachary C. Albrecht, Garrett B. Powell
On Designing Programming Error Messages for Novices: Readability and its Constituent Factors. CHI (2021)
Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Robert Nix, Catherine Mooney
Towards Assessing the Readability of Programming Error Messages. ACE (2021)

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Brett A. Becker