James Prather

85 papers A* 2A 4B 2C 9Journal 30Unranked 36
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 C conf
Enabling Postgraduate Projects in Computing Education through Synthetic Research Data Generation.
ACE
Paul Denny, Kaitlin Riegel, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Stephen MacNeil
2026 C conf
One Line at a Time: Scaffolding Reflective Code Evaluation through Structured AI Assistance.
ACE
Victor Qiu, Liam Parker, Kaitlin Riegel, Nasser Giacaman, Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, James Prather
2026 C conf
Unraveling Ambiguities: Analyzing Student Approaches to Solving Probeable Problems.
ACE
Viraj Kumar, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Stephen MacNeil
2025 J jnl
2025 SIGCSE Technical Symposium Report.
ACM SIGCSE Bull.
Jeffrey A. Stone, Timothy T. Yuen, Samuel A. Rebelsky, Libby Shoop, James Prather, Oluwakemi Ola, Narges Norouzi
2025 C conf
Breaking the Programming Language Barrier: Multilingual Prompting to Empower Non-Native English Learners.
ACE
James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, João Orvalho, Amin Alipour, Ali Alfageeh, Thezyrie Amarouche, Bailey Kimmel, Jared Wright, Musa Blake, Gweneth Barbre
2025 — conf
Fostering Responsible AI Use Through Negative Expertise: A Contextualized Autocompletion Quiz.
ITiCSE (1)
Stephen MacNeil, James Prather, Rahad Arman Nabid, Sebastian Gutierrez, Silas Carvalho, Saimon Shrestha, Paul Denny, Brent N. Reeves, Juho Leinonen, Rachel Louise Rossetti
2025 — conf
From Prompts to Propositions: A Logic-Based Lens on Student-LLM Interactions.
Koli Calling
Ali Alfageeh, Sadegh AlMahdi Kazemi Zarkouei, Daye Nam, Daniel Prol, Matin Amoozadeh, Souti Chattopadhyay, James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Michael Hilton, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Amin Alipour
2025 J jnl
From Prompts to Propositions: A Logic-Based Lens on Student-LLM Interactions.
CoRR
Ali Alfageeh, Sadegh AlMahdi Kazemi Zarkouei, Daye Nam, Daniel Prol, Matin Amoozadeh, Souti Chattopadhyay, James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Michael Hilton, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Mohammad Amin Alipour
2025 — conf
Probing the Unknown: Exploring Student Interactions with Probeable Problems at Scale in Introductory Programming.
ITiCSE (1)
Paul Denny, Viraj Kumar, Stephen MacNeil, James Prather, Juho Leinonen
2025 J jnl
Probing the Unknown: Exploring Student Interactions with Probeable Problems at Scale in Introductory Programming.
CoRR
Paul Denny, Viraj Kumar, Stephen MacNeil, James Prather, Juho Leinonen
2025 — ed.
Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1, SIGCSE TS 2025, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 26 February 2025 - 1 March 2025
SIGCSE (1)
Jeffrey A. Stone, Timothy T. Yuen, Libby Shoop, Samuel A. Rebelsky, James Prather
2025 — ed.
Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2, SIGCSE TS 2025, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 26 February 2025 - 1 March 2025
SIGCSE (2)
Jeffrey A. Stone, Timothy T. Yuen, Libby Shoop, Samuel A. Rebelsky, James Prather
2025 — conf
Prompts First, Precision Later: Reviving the Vision of Natural Language Programming for Computing Education.
Koli Calling
Brent N. Reeves, James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen, Claus Brabrand
2025 J jnl
SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2025: Information for Attendees.
ACM SIGCSE Bull.
Jeffrey A. Stone, Timothy T. Yuen, Samuel A. Rebelsky, Libby Shoop, James Prather
2025 J jnl
SPIRAL integration of generative AI in an undergraduate creative media course: effects on self-efficacy and career outcome expectations.
CoRR
Troy Schotter, Saba Kawas, James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Jon Ippolito, Greg L. Nelson
2025 C conf
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Solving Visual Graph and Tree Based Data Structure Problems using Large Multimodal Models.
ACE
Sebastian Gutierrez, Irene Hou, Jihye Lee, Kenneth Angelikas, Owen Man, Sophia Mettille, James Prather, Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil
2025 — conf
The Impact of Students' Views of Failure on Performance in Introductory Programming Courses.
ITiCSE (1)
Masoumeh Rahimi, Lauren E. Margulieux, Dwayne Towell, Jonathan Calver, Dastyni Loksa, James Prather
2024 A* conf
"Backseat Gaming" A Study of Co-Regulated Learning within a Collegiate Male Esports Community.
CHI
Erica Kleinman, Reza Habibi, Garrett B. Powell, Brent N. Reeves, James Prather, Magy Seif El-Nasr
2024 J jnl
"It's Weird That it Knows What I Want": Usability and Interactions with Copilot for Novice Programmers.
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact.
James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Garrett B. Powell, James Finnie-Ansley, Eddie Antonio Santos
2024 — conf
AI in Computing Education from Research to Practice.
SIGCSE (2)
Bita Akram, Juho Leinonen, Narges Norouzi, James Prather, Lisa Zhang
2024 — conf
Beyond the Hype: A Comprehensive Review of Current Trends in Generative AI Research, Teaching Practices, and Tools.
ITiCSE-WGR
James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Natalie Kiesler, Jamie Gorson Benario, Sam Lau, Stephen MacNeil, Narges Norouzi, Simone Opel, Vee Pettit, Leo Porter, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromír Savelka, David H. Smith, Sven Strickroth, Daniel Zingaro
2024 J jnl
Beyond the Hype: A Comprehensive Review of Current Trends in Generative AI Research, Teaching Practices, and Tools.
CoRR
James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Natalie Kiesler, Jamie Gorson Benario, Sam Lau, Stephen MacNeil, Narges Norouzi, Simone Opel, Vee Pettit, Leo Porter, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromír Savelka, David H. Smith IV, Sven Strickroth, Daniel Zingaro
2024 J jnl
Breaking the Programming Language Barrier: Multilingual Prompting to Empower Non-Native English Learners.
CoRR
James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, João Orvalho, Amin Alipour, Ali Alfageeh, Thezyrie Amarouche, Bailey Kimmel, Jared Wright, Musa Blake, Gweneth Barbre
2024 J jnl
Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI.
Commun. ACM
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
2024 — conf
Discussing the Changing Landscape of Generative AI in Computing Education.
SIGCSE (2)
Stephen MacNeil, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Natalie Kiesler, Arto Hellas, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Michel Wermelinger, Karen Reid
2024 — conf
Evaluating Contextually Personalized Programming Exercises Created with Generative AI.
ICER (1)
Evanfiya Logacheva, Arto Hellas, James Prather, Sami Sarsa, Juho Leinonen
2024 J jnl
Evaluating Contextually Personalized Programming Exercises Created with Generative AI.
CoRR
Evanfiya Logacheva, Arto Hellas, James Prather, Sami Sarsa, Juho Leinonen
2024 — conf
Explaining Code with a Purpose: An Integrated Approach for Developing Code Comprehension and Prompting Skills.
ITiCSE (1)
Paul Denny, David H. Smith, Max Fowler, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen
2024 J jnl
Explaining Code with a Purpose: An Integrated Approach for Developing Code Comprehension and Prompting Skills.
CoRR
Paul Denny, David H. Smith IV, Max Fowler, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen
2024 C conf
Generative AI in Education: A Study of Educators' Awareness, Sentiments, and Influencing Factors.
FIE
Aashish Ghimire, James Prather, John Edwards
2024 J jnl
Generative AI in Education: A Study of Educators' Awareness, Sentiments, and Influencing Factors.
CoRR
Aashish Ghimire, James Prather, John Edwards
2024 — conf
How Instructors Incorporate Generative AI into Teaching Computing.
ITiCSE (2)
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
2024 — conf
Integrating Natural Language Prompting Tasks in Introductory Programming Courses.
SIGCSE Virtual (1)
Chris Kerslake, Paul Denny, David H. Smith, James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Stephen MacNeil
2024 J jnl
Integrating Natural Language Prompting Tasks in Introductory Programming Courses.
CoRR
Chris Kerslake, Paul Denny, David H. Smith IV, James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Stephen MacNeil
2024 J jnl
Interactions with Prompt Problems: A New Way to Teach Programming with Large Language Models.
CoRR
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
2024 — conf
Prompt Problems: A New Programming Exercise for the Generative AI Era.
SIGCSE (1)
Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Thezyrie Amarouche, Brett A. Becker, Brent N. Reeves
2024 J jnl
Prompts First, Finally.
CoRR
Brent N. Reeves, James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Brett A. Becker, Andrew Luxton-Reilly
2024 J jnl
SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2025: Call for Submissions.
ACM SIGCSE Bull.
Libby Shoop, Samuel A. Rebelsky, James Prather
2024 J jnl
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Solving Visual Graph and Tree Based Data Structure Problems using Large Multimodal Models.
CoRR
Sebastian Gutierrez, Irene Hou, Jihye Lee, Kenneth Angelikas, Owen Man, Sophia Mettille, James Prather, Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil
2024 — conf
Self-Regulation, Self-Efficacy, and Fear of Failure Interactions with How Novices Use LLMs to Solve Programming Problems.
ITiCSE (1)
Lauren E. Margulieux, James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Brett A. Becker, Gozde Cetin Uzun, Dastyni Loksa, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny
2024 — conf
Solving Proof Block Problems Using Large Language Models.
SIGCSE (1)
Seth Poulsen, Sami Sarsa, James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Brett A. Becker, Arto Hellas, Paul Denny, Brent N. Reeves
2024 — conf
Student-AI Interaction: A Case Study of CS1 students.
Koli Calling
Matin Amoozadeh, Daye Nam, Daniel Prol, Ali Alfageeh, James Prather, Michael Hilton, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Amin Alipour
2024 J jnl
Student-AI Interaction: A Case Study of CS1 students.
CoRR
Matin Amoozadeh, Daye Nam, Daniel Prol, Ali Alfageeh, James Prather, Michael Hilton, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Mohammad Amin Alipour
2024 — conf
The Widening Gap: The Benefits and Harms of Generative AI for Novice Programmers.
ICER (1)
James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Arisoa S. Randrianasolo, Brett A. Becker, Bailey Kimmel, Jared Wright, Ben Briggs
2024 J jnl
The Widening Gap: The Benefits and Harms of Generative AI for Novice Programmers.
CoRR
James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Arisoa S. Randrianasolo, Brett A. Becker, Bailey Kimmel, Jared Wright, Ben Briggs
2023 J jnl
"It's Weird That it Knows What I Want": Usability and Interactions with Copilot for Novice Programmers.
CoRR
James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Garrett B. Powell, James Finnie-Ansley, Eddie Antonio Santos
2023 — conf
Benefits of Failure on Neuroplasticity and Tools for Persistence.
ICER (2)
Masoumeh Rahimi, Lauren E. Margulieux, James Prather, Gozde Cetin Uzun, Bailey Kimmel
2023 — conf
Chat Overflow: Artificially Intelligent Models for Computing Education - renAIssance or apocAIypse?
ITiCSE (1)
Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen, James Prather
2023 — conf
Community Input for CS2023: Society, Ethics and Professionalism.
SIGCSE (2)
Brett A. Becker, Richard Blumenthal, Mikey Goldweber, James Prather, Susan Reiser, Michelle Trim, Titus Winters
2023 J jnl
Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI.
CoRR
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
2023 — conf
Evaluating the Performance of Code Generation Models for Solving Parsons Problems With Small Prompt Variations.
ITiCSE (1)
Brent N. Reeves, Sami Sarsa, James Prather, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Arto Hellas, Bailey Kimmel, Garrett B. Powell, Juho Leinonen
2023 — conf
First Steps Towards Predicting the Readability of Programming Error Messages.
SIGCSE (1)
James Prather, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Robert Nix, Brent N. Reeves, Arisoa S. Randrianasolo, Garrett B. Powell
2023 J jnl
Leverage Biology to Learn Rapidly From Mistakes Without Feeling Like a Failure.
Comput. Sci. Eng.
Lauren E. Margulieux, James Prather, Masoumeh Rahimi, Gozde Cetin Uzun
2023 C conf
My AI Wants to Know if This Will Be on the Exam: Testing OpenAI's Codex on CS2 Programming Exercises.
ACE
James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Eddie Antonio Santos, James Prather, Brett A. Becker
2023 — conf
Programming Is Hard - Or at Least It Used to Be: Educational Opportunities and Challenges of AI Code Generation.
SIGCSE (1)
Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, James Finnie-Ansley, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, James Prather, Eddie Antonio Santos
2023 J jnl
Prompt Problems: A New Programming Exercise for the Generative AI Era.
CoRR
Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Thezyrie Amarouche, Brett A. Becker, Brent N. Reeves
2023 J jnl
Promptly: Using Prompt Problems to Teach Learners How to Effectively Utilize AI Code Generators.
CoRR
Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Thezyrie Amarouche, Brett A. Becker, Brent N. Reeves
2023 — conf
The Implications of Large Language Models for CS Teachers and Students.
SIGCSE (2)
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
2023 — conf
The Robots Are Here: Navigating the Generative AI Revolution in Computing Education.
ITiCSE-WGR
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
2023 J jnl
The Robots are Here: Navigating the Generative AI Revolution in Computing Education.
CoRR
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
2023 — conf
Transformed by Transformers: Navigating the AI Coding Revolution for Computing Education: An ITiCSE Working Group Conducted by Humans.
ITiCSE (2)
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
2023 — conf
Using Large Language Models to Enhance Programming Error Messages.
SIGCSE (1)
Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas, Sami Sarsa, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker
2022 — conf
From the Horse's Mouth: The Words We Use to Teach Diverse Student Groups Across Three Continents.
SIGCSE (1)
Brett A. Becker, Daniel Gallagher, Paul Denny, James Prather, Colleen Gostomski, Kelli Norris, Garrett B. Powell
2022 — conf
Getting By With Help From My Friends: Group Study in Introductory Programming Understood as Socially Shared Regulation.
ICER (1)
James Prather, Lauren E. Margulieux, Jacqueline Whalley, Paul Denny, Brent N. Reeves, Brett A. Becker, Paramvir Singh, Garrett B. Powell, Nigel Bosch
2022 J jnl
Metacognition and Self-Regulation in Programming Education: Theories and Exemplars of Use.
ACM Trans. Comput. Educ.
Dastyni Loksa, Lauren E. Margulieux, Brett A. Becker, Michelle Craig, Paul Denny, Raymond Pettit, James Prather
2022 — conf
Novice Reflections During the Transition to a New Programming Language.
SIGCSE (1)
Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Nigel Bosch, James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Jacqueline Whalley
2022 — conf
Parsons Problems and Beyond: Systematic Literature Review and Empirical Study Designs.
ITiCSE-WGR
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
2022 — conf
Planning a Multi-institutional and Multi-national Study of the Effectiveness of Parsons Problems.
ITiCSE (2)
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
2022 J jnl
Programming Is Hard - Or at Least It Used to Be: Educational Opportunities And Challenges of AI Code Generation.
CoRR
Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, James Finnie-Ansley, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, James Prather, Eddie Antonio Santos
2022 — conf
Scaffolding Task Planning Using Abstract Parsons Problems.
WCCE
James Prather, John Homer, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, John Marsden, Garrett B. Powell
2022 C conf
The Robots Are Coming: Exploring the Implications of OpenAI Codex on Introductory Programming.
ACE
James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, James Prather
2022 J jnl
Using Large Language Models to Enhance Programming Error Messages.
CoRR
Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas, Sami Sarsa, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker
2021 A* conf
On Designing Programming Error Messages for Novices: Readability and its Constituent Factors.
CHI
Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Catherine Mooney, John Homer, Zachary C. Albrecht, Garrett B. Powell
2021 C conf
Towards Assessing the Readability of Programming Error Messages.
ACE
Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Robert Nix, Catherine Mooney
2020 B conf
Error Message Readability and Novice Debugging Performance.
ITiCSE
Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker
2020 A conf
What Do We Think We Think We Are Doing?: Metacognition and Self-Regulation in Programming.
ICER
James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Michelle Craig, Paul Denny, Dastyni Loksa, Lauren E. Margulieux
2019 — conf
A Closer Look at Metacognitive Scaffolding: Solving Test Cases Before Programming.
Koli Calling
Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Zachary Albrecht, Dastyni Loksa, Raymond Pettit
2019 J jnl
BEST PAPER AT SIGCSE 2019 IN THE CS EDUCATION TRACK: First things first: providing metacognitive scaffolding for interpreting problem prompts.
Inroads
James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, Dastyni Loksa, Alani L. Peters, Zachary Albrecht, Krista Masci
2019 — conf
Compiler Error Messages Considered Unhelpful: The Landscape of Text-Based Programming Error Message Research.
ITiCSE-WGR
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
2019 A conf
First Things First: Providing Metacognitive Scaffolding for Interpreting Problem Prompts.
SIGCSE
James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, Dastyni Loksa, Alani L. Peters, Zachary Albrecht, Krista Masci
2019 B conf
Unexpected Tokens: A Review of Programming Error Messages and Design Guidelines for the Future.
ITiCSE
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
2018 A conf
Metacognitive Difficulties Faced by Novice Programmers in Automated Assessment Tools.
ICER
James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Kayla Holcomb McMurry, Alani L. Peters, John Homer, Maxine S. Cohen
2017 J jnl
Automated assessment tools: too many cooks, not enough collaboration.
J. Comput. Sci. Coll.
Raymond Pettit, James Prather
2017 A conf
On Novices' Interaction with Compiler Error Messages: A Human Factors Approach.
ICER
James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Kayla Holcomb McMurry, Alani L. Peters, John Homer, Nevan Simone, Maxine S. Cohen
2017 — conf
Trust management for cheating detection in distributed massively multiplayer online games.
NetGames
James Prather, Robert Nix, Ryan K. Jessup