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Brett A. Becker

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

93

Venues

9

Active years

2006–2025

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

93 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2025ITiCSEError Messages are Here to Help!Dennis J. Bouvier, Ellie Lovellette, Eddie Antonio Santos, Brett A. Becker, Venu G. Dasigi, Jack Forden, Olga Glebova, Swaroop Joshi, Stan Kurkovsky, Sen Russell
2025SIGCSEExploring Student Reactions to LLM-Generated Feedback on Explain in Plain English Problems.Chris Kerslake, Paul Denny, David H. Smith, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Brett A. Becker
2025SIGCSERevising Programs to Align with Computer Science Curricula 2023 (CS2023).Rajendra K. Raj, Sherif G. Aly, Brett A. Becker, Celina Berg
2025SIGCSECultivating Sense of Belonging in Computing Education: Identifying Servingness Traits Among Community College Population.Christian Servin, Brett A. Becker, Emiliano Garcia
2024ICERThe Widening Gap: The Benefits and Harms of Generative AI for Novice Programmers.James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Arisoa S. Randrianasolo, Brett A. Becker, Bailey Kimmel, Jared Wright, Ben Briggs
2024ITiCSEComputer Science Curricula 2023 (CS2023): Rising to the Challenges of Change in AI, Security, and Society.Sherif G. Aly, Brett A. Becker, Amruth N. Kumar, Rajendra K. Raj
2024ITiCSEExplaining Code with a Purpose: An Integrated Approach for Developing Code Comprehension and Prompting Skills.Paul Denny, David H. Smith, Max Fowler, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen
2024ITiCSEIntegrating Society, Ethics and the Computing Profession With Computer Science Curricula 2023.Brett A. Becker
2024ITiCSEWorking Group Proposal: Computing Education in Africa.Sally Hamouda, Linda Marshall, Kate Sanders, Ethel Tshukudu, Oluwatoyin Adelakun-Adeyemo, Brett A. Becker, Emma R. Dodoo, G. Ayorkor Korsah, Sandani Luvhengo, Oluwakemi Ola, Jack Parkinson, Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi
2024ITiCSEComputing Education in African Countries: A Literature Review and Contextualised Learning Materials.Sally Hamouda, Linda Marshall, Kate Sanders, Ethel Tshukudu, Oluwatoyin Adelakun-Adeyemo, Brett A. Becker, Emma R. Dodoo, G. Ayorkor Korsah, Sandani Luvhengo, Oluwakemi Ola, Jack Parkinson, Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi
2024ITiCSEGuidelines for the Evolving Role of Generative AI in Introductory Programming Based on Emerging Practice.Joyce Mahon, Brian Mac Namee, Brett A. Becker
2024ITiCSESelf-Regulation, Self-Efficacy, and Fear of Failure Interactions with How Novices Use LLMs to Solve Programming Problems.Lauren E. Margulieux, James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Brett A. Becker, Gozde Cetin Uzun, Dastyni Loksa, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny
2024ITiCSEEnabling Digital Technology in Primary Schools.Keith Nolan, Amanda O'Farrell, Keith Quille, Karen Nolan, Roisin Faherty, Rajesh R. Jaiswal, Svetlana Hensman, Michael Collins, Miriam Harte, Brett A. Becker
2024ITiCSELLMs in Open and Closed Book Examinations in a Final Year Applied Machine Learning Course (Early Findings).Keith Quille, Brett A. Becker, Roisin Faherty, Damian Gordon, Miriam Harte, Svetlana Hensman, Markus Hofmann, Keith Nolan, Ciarn O'Leary
2024SIGCSEPrompt Problems: A New Programming Exercise for the Generative AI Era.Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Thezyrie Amarouche, Brett A. Becker, Brent N. Reeves
2024SIGCSEDiscussing the Changing Landscape of Generative AI in Computing Education.Stephen MacNeil, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Natalie Kiesler, Arto Hellas, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Michel Wermelinger, Karen Reid
2024SIGCSEA Global Survey of Introductory Programming Courses.Raina Mason, Simon, Brett A. Becker, Tom Crick, James H. Davenport
2024SIGCSESolving Proof Block Problems Using Large Language Models.Seth Poulsen, Sami Sarsa, James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Brett A. Becker, Arto Hellas, Paul Denny, Brent N. Reeves
2023ACEMy AI Wants to Know if This Will Be on the Exam: Testing OpenAI's Codex on CS2 Programming Exercises.James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Eddie Antonio Santos, James Prather, Brett A. Becker
2023ACEStudent Sense of Belonging: The Role of Gender Identity and Minoritisation in Computing and Other Sciences.Shamima Nasrin Runa, Anna Markella Antoniadi, Brett A. Becker, Catherine Mooney
2023ITiCSEChat Overflow: Artificially Intelligent Models for Computing Education - renAIssance or apocAIypse?Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen, James Prather
2023ITiCSEThe Robots Are Here: Navigating the Generative AI Revolution in Computing Education.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, Jaromr Savelka
2023ITiCSETransformed by Transformers: Navigating the AI Coding Revolution for Computing Education: An ITiCSE Working Group Conducted by Humans.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, Jaromr Savelka
2023ITiCSEEvaluating the Performance of Code Generation Models for Solving Parsons Problems With Small Prompt Variations.Brent N. Reeves, Sami Sarsa, James Prather, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Arto Hellas, Bailey Kimmel, Garrett B. Powell, Juho Leinonen
2023ITiCSEOnline Programming Exams - An Experience Report.Sen Russell, Simon Caton, Brett A. Becker
2023SIGCSEUsing Large Language Models to Enhance Programming Error Messages.Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas, Sami Sarsa, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker
2023SIGCSECommunity Input for CS2023: Society, Ethics and Professionalism.Brett A. Becker, Richard Blumenthal, Mikey Goldweber, James Prather, Susan Reiser, Michelle Trim, Titus Winters
2023SIGCSEProgramming Is Hard - Or at Least It Used to Be: Educational Opportunities and Challenges of AI Code Generation.Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, James Finnie-Ansley, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, James Prather, Eddie Antonio Santos
2023SIGCSEThe Implications of Large Language Models for CS Teachers and Students.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
2023SIGCSEFirst Steps Towards Predicting the Readability of Programming Error Messages.James Prather, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Robert Nix, Brent N. Reeves, Arisoa S. Randrianasolo, Garrett B. Powell
2023SIGCSEThe European Commission and AI: Guidelines, Acts and Plans Impacting the Teaching of AI and Teaching with AI.Keith Quille, Brett A. Becker, Lidia Vidal-Meli
2023SIGCSEApplying Software Engineering Anti-patterns to Programming Error Messages.Eddie Antonio Santos, Ioannis Karvelas, Brett A. Becker
2022ACEThe Robots Are Coming: Exploring the Implications of OpenAI Codex on Introductory Programming.James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, James Prather
2022ICERGetting By With Help From My Friends: Group Study in Introductory Programming Understood as Socially Shared Regulation.James Prather, Lauren E. Margulieux, Jacqueline Whalley, Paul Denny, Brent N. Reeves, Brett A. Becker, Paramvir Singh, Garrett B. Powell, Nigel Bosch
2022ITiCSEComparing the Programming Self-Efficacy of Teachers Using CSLINC to Those Teaching the Formal National Curriculum.Roisin Faherty, Keith Quille, Brett A. Becker
2022SIGCSEFrom the Horse's Mouth: The Words We Use to Teach Diverse Student Groups Across Three Continents.Brett A. Becker, Daniel Gallagher, Paul Denny, James Prather, Colleen Gostomski, Kelli Norris, Garrett B. Powell
2022SIGCSEWhat Fails Once, Fails Again: Common Repeated Errors in Introductory Programming Automated Assessments.Simon Caton, Sen Russell, Brett A. Becker
2022SIGCSEPiecing Together the Next 15 Years of Computing Education Research Workshop Report.Adrienne Decker, Mark Allen Weiss, Brett A. Becker, John P. Dougherty, Stephen H. Edwards, Joanna Goode, Amy J. Ko, Monica M. McGill, Briana B. Morrison, Manuel A. Prez-Quiones, Yolanda A. Rankin, Monique Ross, Jan Vahrenhold, David Weintrop, Aman Yadav
2022SIGCSENovice Reflections During the Transition to a New Programming Language.Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Nigel Bosch, James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Jacqueline Whalley
2022SIGCSEExperiences Implementing and Utilizing a Notional Machine in the Classroom.Paul E. Dickson, Tim D. Richards, Brett A. Becker
2022SIGCSEHow Creatively Are We Teaching and Assessing Creativity in Computing Education: A Systematic Literature Review.Wouter Groeneveld, Brett A. Becker, Joost Vennekens
2022SIGCSESympathy for the (Novice) Developer: Programming Activity When Compilation Mechanism Varies.Ioannis Karvelas, Brett A. Becker
2022SIGCSEA Novel Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Course for Secondary School Students.Joyce Mahon, Keith Quille, Brian Mac Namee, Brett A. Becker
2022SIGCSECSLINC a Nationwide CS MOOC for Second-level Students.Karen Nolan, Keith Quille, Brett A. Becker
2022SIGCSEShould Quantum Processor Design be Considered a Topic in Computer Architecture Education?Marcelo Pias, Brett A. Becker, Qiao Xiang, Mohamed Zahran, Monica Anderson
2022SIGCSEBuilding K-12 Teacher Capacity to Expand Uptake in a National CS Curriculum.Keith Quille, Roisin Faherty, Brett A. Becker
2022SIGCSECommunity Input for CS202X: Software Engineering.Titus Winters, Brett A. Becker, Christian Servin
2021ACETowards Assessing the Readability of Programming Error Messages.Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Robert Nix, Catherine Mooney
2021ACEA Simple, Language-Independent Approach to Identifying Potentially At-Risk Introductory Programming Students.Brett A. Becker, Catherine Mooney, Amruth N. Kumar, Sen Russell
2021CHIOn Designing Programming Error Messages for Novices: Readability and its Constituent Factors.Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Catherine Mooney, John Homer, Zachary C. Albrecht, Garrett B. Powell
2021ITiCSEThe Roles of Computing Terminology in Non-Computing Disciplines.Brett A. Becker
2021ITiCSEComputing Crossroads: Career Diversity Highlighting Computing's Natural Diversity.Brett A. Becker, Daniel Gallagher
2021ITiCSEComparing Programming Self-Esteem of Upper Secondary School Teachers to CS1 Students.Roisin Faherty, Keith Quille, Rebecca Vivian, Monica M. McGill, Brett A. Becker, Karen Nolan
2021ITiCSEExploring Novice Programming Behavior over Time.Ioannis Karvelas, Joe Dillane, Brett A. Becker
2021ITiCSEDeveloping an Open-Book Online Exam for Final Year Students.Keith Quille, Keith Nolan, Brett A. Becker, Sen McHugh
2021SIGCSEExpanding Opportunities: Assessing and Addressing Geographic Diversity at the SIGCSE Technical Symposium.Brett A. Becker, Amber Settle, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Briana B. Morrison, Cary Laxer
2021SIGCSEInvestigating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Computing Students' Sense of Belonging.Catherine Mooney, Brett A. Becker
2020ICERWhat Do We Think We Think We Are Doing?: Metacognition and Self-Regulation in Programming.James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Michelle Craig, Paul Denny, Dastyni Loksa, Lauren E. Margulieux
2020ITiCSEError Message Readability and Novice Debugging Performance.Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker
2020ITiCSEEngage Against the Machine: Rise of the Notional Machines as Effective Pedagogical Devices.Paul E. Dickson, Neil C. C. Brown, Brett A. Becker
2020ITiCSESoft Skills: What do Computing Program Syllabi Reveal About Non-Technical Expectations of Undergraduate Students?Wouter Groeneveld, Brett A. Becker, Joost Vennekens
2020ITiCSEExploring Sense of Belonging in Computer Science Students.Catherine Mooney, Anna Antoniadi, Ioannis Karvelas, Lana Salmon, Brett A. Becker
2020ITiCSEDeveloping an Inclusive K-12 Outreach Model.Karen Nolan, Roisin Faherty, Keith Quille, Brett A. Becker, Susan Bergin
2020ITiCSEProgSnap2: A Flexible Format for Programming Process Data.Thomas W. Price, David Hovemeyer, Kelly Rivers, Ge Gao, Austin Cory Bart, Ayaan M. Kazerouni, Brett A. Becker, Andrew Petersen, Luke Gusukuma, Stephen H. Edwards, David S. Babcock
2020ITiCSEToward High Performance Computing Education.Rajendra K. Raj, Carol J. Romanowski, Sherif G. Aly, Brett A. Becker, Juan Chen, Sheikh K. Ghafoor, Nasser Giacaman, Steven I. Gordon, Cruz Izu, Shahram Rahimi, Michael P. Robson, Neena Thota
2020ITiCSEHigh Performance Computing Education: Current Challenges and Future Directions.Rajendra K. Raj, Carol J. Romanowski, John Impagliazzo, Sherif G. Aly, Brett A. Becker, Juan Chen, Sheikh K. Ghafoor, Nasser Giacaman, Steven I. Gordon, Cruz Izu, Shahram Rahimi, Michael P. Robson, Neena Thota
2020SIGCSECompiler Error Messages: Their Content and Accessibility in Novice Programming Environments.Ioannis Karvelas, Joe Dillane, Brett A. Becker
2020SIGCSEThe Effects of Compilation Mechanisms and Error Message Presentation on Novice Programmer Behavior.Ioannis Karvelas, Annie Li, Brett A. Becker
2020SIGCSEImproving Global Participation in the SIGCSE Technical Symposium: Panel.Amber Settle, Brett A. Becker, Rodrigo Duran, Viraj Kumar, Andrew Luxton-Reilly
2019ICERResearch This! Questions that Computing Educators Most Want Computing Education Researchers to Answer.Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Michelle Craig, Greg Wilson, Piotr Banaszkiewicz
2019ICERInferential Statistics in Computing Education Research: A Methodological Review.Kate Sanders, Judy Sheard, Brett A. Becker, Anna Eckerdal, Sally Hamouda, Simon
2019ITiCSEA Survey of Introductory Programming Courses in Ireland.Brett A. Becker
2019ITiCSECompiler Error Messages Considered Unhelpful: The Landscape of Text-Based Programming Error Message Research.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
2019ITiCSEUnexpected Tokens: A Review of Programming Error Messages and Design Guidelines for the Future.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
2019ITiCSEVisual Portrayals of Data and Results at ITiCSE.Simon, Brett A. Becker, Sally Hamouda, Robert McCartney, Kate Sanders, Judy Sheard
2019SIGCSEWhat Do CS1 Syllabi Reveal About Our Expectations of Introductory Programming Students?Brett A. Becker, Thomas Fitzpatrick
2019SIGCSE50 Years of CS1 at SIGCSE: A Review of the Evolution of Introductory Programming Education Research.Brett A. Becker, Keith Quille
2019SIGCSEFirst Things First: Providing Metacognitive Scaffolding for Interpreting Problem Prompts.James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, Dastyni Loksa, Alani L. Peters, Zachary Albrecht, Krista Masci
2018ICSEComputer Science Identity and Sense of Belonging: A Case Study in Ireland.Catherine Mooney, Brett A. Becker, Lana Salmon, Eleni E. Mangina
2018ITiCSEA review of introductory programming research 2003-2017.Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Simon, Ibrahim Albluwi, Brett A. Becker, Michail N. Giannakos, Amruth N. Kumar, Linda M. Ott, James H. Paterson, Michael James Scott, Judy Sheard, Claudia Szabo
2018ITiCSEIntroductory programming: a systematic literature review.Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Simon, Ibrahim Albluwi, Brett A. Becker, Michail N. Giannakos, Amruth N. Kumar, Linda M. Ott, James H. Paterson, Michael James Scott, Judy Sheard, Claudia Szabo
2018ITiCSEHow statistics are used in computing education research.Kate Sanders, Sally Hamouda, Brett A. Becker, Anna Eckerdal, Robert McCartney, Judy Sheard, Simon
2018SIGCSEThe Effects of Enhanced Compiler Error Messages on a Syntax Error Debugging Test.Brett A. Becker, Kyle Goslin, Graham Glanville
2018SIGCSEFix the First, Ignore the Rest: Dealing with Multiple Compiler Error Messages.Brett A. Becker, Cormac Murray, Tianyi Tao, Changheng Song, Robert McCartney, Kate Sanders
2018SIGCSEAchievement Goals in CS1: Replication and Extension.Daniel Zingaro, Michelle Craig, Leo Porter, Brett A. Becker, Yingjun Cao, Phillip T. Conrad, Diana Cukierman, Arto Hellas, Dastyni Loksa, Neena Thota
2017ITiCSEDeveloping Assessments to Determine Mastery of Programming Fundamentals.Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Brett A. Becker, Yingjun Cao, Roger McDermott, Claudio Mirolo, Andreas Mhling, Andrew Petersen, Kate Sanders, Simon, Jacqueline L. Whalley
2017ITiCSEDeveloping Assessments to Determine Mastery of Programming Fundamentals.Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Brett A. Becker, Yingjun Cao, Roger McDermott, Claudio Mirolo, Andreas Mhling, Andrew Petersen, Kate Sanders, Simon, Jacqueline L. Whalley
2016ITiCSEA New Metric to Quantify Repeated Compiler Errors for Novice Programmers.Brett A. Becker
2016ITiCSENovice Programmers and the Problem Description Effect.Dennis J. Bouvier, Ellie Lovellette, John Matta, Bedour Alshaigy, Brett A. Becker, Michelle Craig, Jana Jackov, Robert McCartney, Kate Sanders, Mark Zarb
2016SIGCSEAn Effective Approach to Enhancing Compiler Error Messages.Brett A. Becker
2010EuroParMax-Plus Algebra and Discrete Event Simulation on Parallel Hierarchical Heterogeneous Platforms.Brett A. Becker, Alexey L. Lastovetsky
2007ISPDCTowards Data Partitioning for Parallel Computing on Three Interconnected Clusters.Brett A. Becker, Alexey L. Lastovetsky
2006CLUSTERMatrix Multiplication on Two Interconnected Processors.Brett A. Becker, Alexey L. Lastovetsky