Efforts to improve computer science education are underway, and teachers of computer
science are challenged in introductory programming courses to help learners develop their …

AI code generators like OpenAI Codex have the potential to assist novice programmers by
generating code from natural language descriptions, however, over-reliance might …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the motivations behind end user development,
discuss its basic concepts and roots, and review the current state of art. Various approaches …

A great part of software development involves conceptualizing or communicating the
underlying procedures and logic that needs to be expressed in programs. One major …

Recent studies in the literature have shown that syntax remains a significant barrier to
novice computer science students in the field. While this syntax barrier is known to exist …

Program comprehension is an important cognitive process that inherently eludes direct
measurement. Thus, researchers are struggling with providing suitable programming …

We believe that children as young as ten can directly benefit from opportunities to engage in
computational thinking. One approach to provide these opportunities is to focus on social …

Natural language programming is a promising approach to enable end users to instruct new
tasks for intelligent agents. However, our formative study found that end users would often …

There is a tremendous amount of web content available today, but it is not always in a form
that supports end-users' needs. In many cases, all of the data and services needed to …

The first decade of the World Wide Web predominantly enforced a clear separation between
designers and consumers. New technological developments, such as the cyberinfrastructure …