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Paul Denny

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Review Oct 2026

Correctness, Convergence, and AI-Generated Code Detection: A Longitudinal Study of Student and Large Language Model Code in Introductory Programming

Large language models can generate plausible solutions to programming assignments, making it tempting to detect their use by matching student code against a reference bank of generated solutions. Yet similar code can also arise when an assignment admits only a few natural implementations, which leaves open what a match...

Runlong Ye, Jing Fan, Angela Zavaleta Bernuy et al. · 0 citations
Review Sep 2026

Testing Our Foundations: Citation Trends, Errors, and Emerging Hallucinations in the Computing Education Literature

Accurate references are foundational to scholarly work, enabling verification, attribution, and systematic review. However, the rapid adoption of large language models has introduced a serious integrity concern: plausible-looking but fabricated citations. Although hallucinated references are widely discussed, their vis...

Paul Denny, Gweneth Barbre, Musa Blake et al. · 0 citations
Book Open access Aug 2026

Scaffolding Autocomplete: Improving Guidance for Learners using Generative Code Suggestions

A scaffolded programming exercise designed to support student differentiation between good and bad GenAI code suggestions based on negative expertise–that identifying why an answer is wrong is part of developing conceptual knowledge.

J. Prather, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Luxton-Reilly et al. · 0 citations
Book Open access Jul 2026

Transforming Code Patterns into Procedural Abstractions: An Empirical Study of De-com-po-si-tion

This paper empirically study how different algorithmic implementations of the same underlying task affect students' ability to reason about good abstractions through method extraction, and shows that interleaved functional composition is more difficult to decompose.

G. Haldeman, Claus Brabrand, Paul Denny · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Mapping the Emerging Curriculum for AI-Assisted Software Engineering via Syllabus Analysis

This work analyzed 23 publicly available syllabi and course materials of upper-division, credit-bearing courses that meet specific criteria, including explicitly addressing Generative AI in software engineering, and characterized courses'learning objectives, assessments, topics, and documented AI tools.

Francis Geng, Anshul Shah, Miannuan Chen et al. · 1 citation
Book Open access Aug 2026

A Validated Scale Measuring Student Self-Efficacy for Programming with Generative AI

This paper presents the development and initial validation of an instrument to measure self-efficacy while using GenAI to learn programming, and finds strong support for the validity of the existing Steinhorst instrument in a new context, specifically an introductory programming course that fully integrates GenAI.

J. Prather, Lauren E. Margulieux, Yekaterina Kharitonova et al. · 0 citations

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