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  1. Pathways to Belonging: Understanding How University Entry Routes Shape the Sense of Belonging of Undergraduate Computing Students

    Article • Digital Threats Research and Practice, December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Yuhan Du

  2. CONVERSATIONS: Computing Crossroads

    Article • ACM Inroads, November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Daniel Gallagher

  3. Teaching Programming Error Message Understanding

    Article • September 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Swaroop Joshi

  4. Not the Silver Bullet: LLM-enhanced Programming Error Messages are Ineffective in Practice

    Article • September 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  5. The Widening Gap: The Benefits and Harms of Generative AI for Novice Programmers

    Article • August 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Juho Leinonen

  6. Computer Science Curricula 2023 (CS2023): Rising to the Challenges of Change in AI, Security, and Society

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Rajendra K Raj, Brett A Becker

  7. Enabling Digital Technology in Primary Schools

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  8. Integrating Society, Ethics and the Computing Profession With Computer Science Curricula 2023

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  9. LLMs in Open and Closed Book Examinations in a Final Year Applied Machine Learning Course (Early Findings)

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Damian Gordon

  10. Working Group Proposal: Computing Education in Africa

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Ismaila Sanusi

  11. Explaining Code with a Purpose: An Integrated Approach for Developing Code Comprehension and Prompting Skills

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Juho Leinonen

  12. Self-Regulation, Self-Efficacy, and Fear of Failure Interactions with How Novices Use LLMs to Solve Programming Problems

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lauren Margulieux, Brett A Becker, Juho Leinonen

  13. Guidelines for the Evolving Role of Generative AI in Introductory Programming Based on Emerging Practice

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  14. Discussing the Changing Landscape of Generative AI in Computing Education

    Article • March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Natalie Kiesler, Brett A Becker, Juho Leinonen

  15. A Global Survey of Introductory Programming Courses

    Article • March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick, A/Professor Raina Mason, Brett A Becker

  16. Solving Proof Block Problems Using Large Language Models

    Article • March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Juho Leinonen

  17. Prompt Problems: A New Programming Exercise for the Generative AI Era

    Article • March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Juho Leinonen

  18. Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI

    Article • Communications of the ACM, January 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Juho Leinonen

  19. The Robots Are Here: Navigating the Generative AI Revolution in Computing Education

    Article • December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Dr. Natalie Kiesler, Juho Leinonen

  20. Teaching Students To Use Programming Error Messages

    Article • December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick, Brett A Becker, Swaroop Joshi

  21. Always Provide Context: The Effects of Code Context on Programming Error Message Enhancement

    Article • December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  22. How Scratch Helps College Students Learn Programming and Understanding Gender Differences

    Article • December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Oladele Campbell

  23. Programmers' Views on IDE Compilation Mechanisms

    Article • December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  24. Understanding a post-COVID Drop in the Belongingness of Minoritised Men in an Undergraduate Computer Science Course

    Article • December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yuhan Du, Brett A Becker

  25. Perspectives on Computer Science Curricula 2023 (CS2023)

    Article • December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Rajendra K Raj, Michael Goldweber, Brett A Becker

  26. Computing Crossroads

    Article • ACM Inroads, November 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  27. CS Outreach to Inform Secondary School Students' Perceptions of CS: Initial Findings

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  28. Sense of Belonging of Undergraduate Computing Students: A Comparative Analysis of University Entry Routes

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yuhan Du, Brett A Becker

  29. Evaluating the Sense of Belonging of Undergraduate Computing Students in the UK and Ireland

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Yuhan Du

  30. No More Pencils No More Books: Capabilities of Generative AI on Irish and UK Computer Science School Leaving Examinations

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  31. “It’s Weird That it Knows What I Want”: Usability and Interactions with Copilot for Novice Programmers

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, August 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Juho Leinonen

  32. Computing Crossroads - Highlighting Career Diversity in Computing

    Article • ACM Inroads, August 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  33. A Combined Knowledge and Competency (CKC) Model for Computer Science Curricula

    Article • ACM Inroads, August 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Christian Servin

  34. Transformed by Transformers: Navigating the AI Coding Revolution for Computing Education: An ITiCSE Working Group Conducted by Humans

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Natalie Kiesler, Brett A Becker, Juho Leinonen, Jaromir Savelka

  35. Evaluating the Performance of Code Generation Models for Solving Parsons Problems With Small Prompt Variations

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Juho Leinonen

  36. Chat Overflow: Artificially Intelligent Models for Computing Education - renAIssance or apocAIypse?

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Juho Leinonen

  37. Online Programming Exams - An Experience Report

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  38. Using Large Language Models to Enhance Programming Error Messages

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Juho Leinonen, Brett A Becker

  39. First Steps Towards Predicting the Readability of Programming Error Messages

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  40. Programming Is Hard - Or at Least It Used to Be

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  41. The Implications of Large Language Models for CS Teachers and Students

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Juho Leinonen, Brett A Becker

  42. Community Input for CS2023

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Michael Goldweber

  43. Student Sense of Belonging: The Role of Gender Identity and Minoritisation in Computing and Other Sciences

    Article • January 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Yuhan Du

  44. My AI Wants to Know if This Will Be on the Exam: Testing OpenAI’s Codex on CS2 Programming Exercises

    Article • January 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  45. Self-Regulation and Metacognition Strategies in Computer Science and Programming Education

    Article • Digital Threats Research and Practice, December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Lauren Margulieux

  46. It’s a Two-Way Street: From the Computing Classroom to Computing Education Research

    Article • November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  47. Variations in Sense of Belonging in Undergraduate Computing Students Through the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Yuhan Du

  48. Computing Competencies for Engineering Students

    Article • September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  49. Getting By With Help From My Friends: Group Study in Introductory Programming Understood as Socially Shared Regulation

    Article • August 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Paramvir Singh, Lauren Margulieux

  50. Comparing the Programming Self-Efficacy of Teachers Using CSLINC to Those Teaching the Formal National Curriculum

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  51. A Novel Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Course for Secondary School Students

    Article • March 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  52. Piecing Together the Next 15 Years of Computing Education Research Workshop Report

    Article • March 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Brett A Becker, Monique Ross, Assoc. Professor, Academic General Faculty Briana Baker Morrison, Monica McGill

  53. CSLINC a Nationwide CS MOOC for Second-level Students

    Article • March 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  54. Community Input for CS202X

    Article • March 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Christian Servin

  55. Building K-12 Teacher Capacity to Expand Uptake in a National CS Curriculum

    Article • March 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  56. The European Commission and AI: Guidelines, Acts and Plans Impacting the Teaching of AI and Teaching with AI

    Article • March 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  57. Applying Software Engineering Anti-patterns to Programming Error Messages

    Article • March 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  58. Sympathy for the (Novice) Developer

    Article • February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  59. Experiences Implementing and Utilizing a Notional Machine in the Classroom

    Article • February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  60. Novice Reflections During the Transition to a New Programming Language

    Article • February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  61. From the Horse's Mouth: The Words We Use to Teach Diverse Student Groups Across Three Continents

    Article • February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Daniel Gallagher

  62. What Fails Once, Fails Again

    Article • February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  63. How Creatively Are We Teaching and Assessing Creativity in Computing Education

    Article • February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  64. The Robots Are Coming: Exploring the Implications of OpenAI Codex on Introductory Programming

    Article • February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  65. Portraits of Programmer Behavior in a Frame-Based Language

    Article • November 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  66. A Frame of Mind: Frame-based vs. Text-based Editing

    Article • September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  67. The Roles and Challenges of Computing Terminology in Non-Computing Disciplines

    Article • September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  68. What does saying that 'programming is hard' really say, and about whom?

    Article • Communications of the ACM, August 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  69. The Roles of Computing Terminology in Non-Computing Disciplines

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  70. Exploring Novice Programming Behavior over Time

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  71. Computing Crossroads: Career Diversity Highlighting Computing's Natural Diversity

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Daniel Gallagher

  72. Developing an Open-Book Online Exam for Final Year Students

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  73. Comparing Programming Self-Esteem of Upper Secondary School Teachers to CS1 Students

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Monica McGill

  74. Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on computing students' sense of belonging

    Article • ACM Inroads, June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Yuhan Du

  75. On Designing Programming Error Messages for Novices: Readability and its Constituent Factors

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Yuhan Du

  76. Investigating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Computing Students' Sense of Belonging

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Yuhan Du

  77. Expanding Opportunities: Assessing and Addressing Geographic Diversity at the SIGCSE Technical Symposium

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  78. A Simple, Language-Independent Approach to Identifying Potentially At-Risk Introductory Programming Students

    Article • February 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Yuhan Du

  79. Towards Assessing the Readability of Programming Error Messages

    Article • February 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Yuhan Du

  80. Compile Much? A Closer Look at the Programming Behavior of Novices in Different Compilation and Error Message Presentation Contexts

    Article • August 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  81. Sense of Belonging: The Intersectionality of Self-Identified Minority Status and Gender in Undergraduate Computer Science Students

    Article • August 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Yuhan Du

  82. Metacognition and Self-Regulation in Computer Science and Programming Education

    Article • August 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Lauren Margulieux

  83. High Performance Computing Education

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Rajendra K Raj, Brett A Becker, Steven Gordon Gordon

  84. Improving Global Participation in the SIGCSE Technical Symposium

    Article • February 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran, Brett A Becker

  85. The Effects of Compilation Mechanisms and Error Message Presentation on Novice Programmer Behavior

    Article • February 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  86. Compiler Error Messages

    Article • February 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  87. Improving Borderline Adulthood Facial Age Estimation through Ensemble Learning

    Article • August 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    David Lillis, Brett A Becker, Mark Scanlon, Aikaterini Kanta

  88. Research This! Questions that Computing Educators Most Want Computing Education Researchers to Answer

    Article • July 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  89. Inferential Statistics in Computing Education Research

    Article • July 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Anna Eckerdal, Brett A Becker

  90. Compiler Error Messages Considered Unhelpful

    Article • July 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  91. BEST PAPER AT SIGCSE 2019 IN THE CS EDUCATION TRACK: First things first: providing metacognitive scaffolding for interpreting problem prompts

    Article • ACM Inroads, April 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  92. 50 Years of CS1 at SIGCSE

    Article • February 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  93. What Do CS1 Syllabi Reveal About Our Expectations of Introductory Programming Students?

    Article • February 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  94. First Things First

    Article • February 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  95. Second Level Computer Science

    Article • November 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  96. Achievement Goals in CS1

    Article • February 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker, Phillip Conrad

  97. Fix the First, Ignore the Rest

    Article • February 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  98. The Effects of Enhanced Compiler Error Messages on a Syntax Error Debugging Test

    Article • February 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker

  99. An Effective Approach to Enhancing Compiler Error Messages

    Article • February 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brett A Becker