AI helps students skip right to the good stuff in this intro programming course

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Generative AI is really good at computer programming – to the point where the way we teach and assess students who are learning to program must change.

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https://theconversation.com/ai-helps-students-skip-right-to-the-good-stuff-in-this-intro-programming-course-220757https://theconversation.com/ai-helps-students-skip-right-to-the-good-stuff-in-this-intro-programming-course-220757
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
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Learning, GitHub Copilot, Teaching, ChatGPT, Student, Synthetic media, Sociology, Engineering, Science, Human, Psychology, Course
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Key Points: 
  • Generative AI is really good at computer programming – to the point where the way we teach and assess students who are learning to program must change.
  • We chose to embrace them in our new course, where students learn to program – supported by a generative AI assistant.
  • The course is built on our new book “Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming.” The book reconceptualizes an introductory programming course in the context of generative AI tools.
  • The course prepares those students to use generative AI to boost their careers through programming.
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