James Prather

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2017-2024
Publications (10 Years): 58

Top Topics

Computing Education

Novice Programmers

Programming Exercises

Influencing Factors

Top Venues

Publications

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)
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)
Evanfiya Logacheva, Arto Hellas, James Prather, Sami Sarsa, Juho Leinonen
Evaluating Contextually Personalized Programming Exercises Created with Generative AI. 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)
Bita Akram, Juho Leinonen, Narges Norouzi, James Prather, Lisa Zhang
AI in Computing Education from Research to Practice. SIGCSE (2) (2024)
Brent N. Reeves, James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Brett A. Becker, Andrew Luxton-Reilly
Prompts First, Finally. CoRR (2024)
Matin Amoozadeh, Daye Nam, Daniel Prol, Ali Alfageeh, James Prather, Michael Hilton, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Mohammad Amin Alipour
Student-AI Interaction: A Case Study of CS1 students. 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)
Aashish Ghimire, James Prather, John Edwards
Generative AI in Education: A Study of Educators' Awareness, Sentiments, and Influencing Factors. 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)
Erica Kleinman, Reza Habibi, Garrett B. Powell, Brent N. Reeves, James Prather, Magy Seif El-Nasr
"Backseat Gaming" A Study of Co-Regulated Learning within a Collegiate Male Esports Community. CHI (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)
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)
Evanfiya Logacheva, Arto Hellas, James Prather, Sami Sarsa, Juho Leinonen
Evaluating Contextually Personalized Programming Exercises Created with Generative AI. ICER (1) (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)
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)
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
How Instructors Incorporate Generative AI into Teaching Computing. ITiCSE (2) (2024)
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)
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)
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)
Lauren E. Margulieux, James Prather, Masoumeh Rahimi, Gozde Cetin Uzun
Leverage Biology to Learn Rapidly From Mistakes Without Feeling Like a Failure. Comput. Sci. Eng. 25 (2) (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)
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, Richard Blumenthal, Mikey Goldweber, James Prather, Susan Reiser, Michelle Trim, Titus Winters
Community Input for CS2023: Society, Ethics and Professionalism. SIGCSE (2) (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)
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)
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)
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
Parsons Problems and Beyond: Systematic Literature Review and Empirical Study Designs. ITiCSE-WGR (2022)
James Prather, John Homer, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, John Marsden, Garrett B. Powell
Scaffolding Task Planning Using Abstract Parsons Problems. WCCE (2022)
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
Planning a Multi-institutional and Multi-national Study of the Effectiveness of Parsons Problems. ITiCSE (2) (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)
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)
Masoumeh Rahimi, Lauren E. Margulieux, James Prather, Gozde Cetin Uzun, Bailey Kimmel
Benefits of Failure on Neuroplasticity and Tools for Persistence. ICER (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)
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)
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)
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)
Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker
Error Message Readability and Novice Debugging Performance. ITiCSE (2020)
James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Michelle Craig, Paul Denny, Dastyni Loksa, Lauren E. Margulieux
What Do We Think We Think We Are Doing?: Metacognition and Self-Regulation in Programming. ICER (2020)
James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, Dastyni Loksa, Alani L. Peters, Zachary Albrecht, Krista Masci
BEST PAPER AT SIGCSE 2019 IN THE CS EDUCATION TRACK: First things first: providing metacognitive scaffolding for interpreting problem prompts. Inroads 10 (2) (2019)
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
Unexpected Tokens: A Review of Programming Error Messages and Design Guidelines for the Future. ITiCSE (2019)
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
Compiler Error Messages Considered Unhelpful: The Landscape of Text-Based Programming Error Message Research. ITiCSE (Working Group Reports) (2019)
Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Zachary Albrecht, Dastyni Loksa, Raymond Pettit
A Closer Look at Metacognitive Scaffolding: Solving Test Cases Before Programming. Koli Calling (2019)
James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, Dastyni Loksa, Alani L. Peters, Zachary Albrecht, Krista Masci
First Things First: Providing Metacognitive Scaffolding for Interpreting Problem Prompts. SIGCSE (2019)
James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Kayla Holcomb McMurry, Alani L. Peters, John Homer, Maxine S. Cohen
Metacognitive Difficulties Faced by Novice Programmers in Automated Assessment Tools. ICER (2018)
James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Kayla Holcomb McMurry, Alani L. Peters, John Homer, Nevan Simone, Maxine S. Cohen
On Novices' Interaction with Compiler Error Messages: A Human Factors Approach. ICER (2017)
James Prather, Robert Nix, Ryan Jessup
Trust management for cheating detection in distributed massively multiplayer online games. NetGames (2017)