James Prather
Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.
Papers indexed
54
Venues
6
Active years
2017–2026
Best venue rank
A*
Where they publish
Papers
54 indexed papers, newest first.
| Year | Venue | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ACE | Enabling Postgraduate Projects in Computing Education through Synthetic Research Data Generation. | Paul Denny, Kaitlin Riegel, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Stephen MacNeil |
| 2026 | ACE | Unraveling Ambiguities: Analyzing Student Approaches to Solving Probeable Problems. | Viraj Kumar, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Stephen MacNeil |
| 2026 | ACE | One Line at a Time: Scaffolding Reflective Code Evaluation through Structured AI Assistance. | Victor Qiu, Liam Parker, Kaitlin Riegel, Nasser Giacaman, Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, James Prather |
| 2026 | ICER | Fast and Forgettable: A Controlled Study of Novices' Performance, Learning, Workload, and Emotion in AI-Assisted and Human Pair Programming Paradigms. | Nicholas Gardella, James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Raymond Pettit, Sara Lu Riggs |
| 2026 | ICER | Understanding Student Perceptions, Mistakes, and Debugging Approaches when Solving Natural Language Programming Tasks. | Victor-Alexandru Padurean, Kaitlin Riegel, Gweneth Barbre, Musa Blake, Paul Denny, Alkis Gotovos, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, James Prather, Adish Singla |
| 2026 | ICER | When AI Is Wrong on Purpose: How Students Respond to Buggy GenAI Code. | Victor-Alexandru Padurean, Kaitlin Riegel, Alkis Gotovos, Jyotika Mahapatra, Ahana Ghosh, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Adish Singla |
| 2026 | ICER | A Validated Scale Measuring Student Self-Efficacy for Programming with Generative AI. | James Prather, Lauren Margulieux, Yekaterina Kharitonova, Yonggao Yang, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Jamie Gorson Benario, Ernest D. V. Holmes, Erin M. Spaulding, Gweneth Barbre, Musa Blake, Juho Leinonen |
| 2026 | ICER | Scaffolding Autocomplete: Improving Guidance for Learners using Generative Code Suggestions. | James Prather, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Lauren Margulieux, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, John Homer, Rahad Arman Nabid, Rachel Louise Rossetti |
| 2026 | ITiCSE | Interleaving Natural Language Prompting with Code Editing for Solving Programming Tasks with Generative AI Models. | Victor-Alexandru Padurean, Alkis Gotovos, Ahana Ghosh, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, James Prather, Adish Singla |
| 2026 | ITiCSE | Say What? Examining Text and Voice Input Modalities for Prompt-Based Programming in Computing Education. | Kaitlin Riegel, Yan Cathy Hua, Paul Denny, Victor-Alexandru Padurean, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Adish Singla |
| 2025 | ACE | Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Solving Visual Graph and Tree Based Data Structure Problems using Large Multimodal Models. | Sebastian Gutierrez, Irene Hou, Jihye Lee, Kenneth Angelikas, Owen Man, Sophia Mettille, James Prather, Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil |
| 2025 | ACE | Breaking the Programming Language Barrier: Multilingual Prompting to Empower Non-Native English Learners. | James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Joo Orvalho, Amin Alipour, Ali Alfageeh, Thezyrie Amarouche, Bailey Kimmel, Jared Wright, Musa Blake, Gweneth Barbre |
| 2025 | ITiCSE | Probing the Unknown: Exploring Student Interactions with Probeable Problems at Scale in Introductory Programming. | Paul Denny, Viraj Kumar, Stephen MacNeil, James Prather, Juho Leinonen |
| 2025 | ITiCSE | Fostering Responsible AI Use Through Negative Expertise: A Contextualized Autocompletion Quiz. | Stephen MacNeil, James Prather, Rahad Arman Nabid, Sebastian Gutierrez, Silas Carvalho, Saimon Shrestha, Paul Denny, Brent N. Reeves, Juho Leinonen, Rachel Louise Rossetti |
| 2025 | ITiCSE | The Impact of Students' Views of Failure on Performance in Introductory Programming Courses. | Masoumeh Rahimi, Lauren E. Margulieux, Dwayne Towell, Jonathan Calver, Dastyni Loksa, James Prather |
| 2024 | CHI | "Backseat Gaming" A Study of Co-Regulated Learning within a Collegiate Male Esports Community. | Erica Kleinman, Reza Habibi, Garrett B. Powell, Brent N. Reeves, James Prather, Magy Seif El-Nasr |
| 2024 | FIE | Generative AI in Education: A Study of Educators' Awareness, Sentiments, and Influencing Factors. | Aashish Ghimire, James Prather, John Edwards |
| 2024 | ICER | Evaluating Contextually Personalized Programming Exercises Created with Generative AI. | Evanfiya Logacheva, Arto Hellas, James Prather, Sami Sarsa, Juho Leinonen |
| 2024 | ICER | The 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 |
| 2024 | ITiCSE | Explaining 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 |
| 2024 | ITiCSE | Self-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 |
| 2024 | ITiCSE | How Instructors Incorporate Generative AI into Teaching Computing. | James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Natalie Kiesler, Jamie Gorson Benario, Sam Lau, Stephen MacNeil, Narges Norouzi, Simone Opel, Virginia Pettit, Leo Porter, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromr Savelka, David H. Smith IV, Sven Strickroth, Daniel Zingaro |
| 2024 | ITiCSE | Beyond the Hype: A Comprehensive Review of Current Trends in Generative AI Research, Teaching Practices, and Tools. | James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Natalie Kiesler, Jamie Gorson Benario, Sam Lau, Stephen MacNeil, Narges Norouzi, Simone Opel, Vee Pettit, Leo Porter, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromr Savelka, David H. Smith, Sven Strickroth, Daniel Zingaro |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Prompt 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 |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | AI in Computing Education from Research to Practice. | Bita Akram, Juho Leinonen, Narges Norouzi, James Prather, Lisa Zhang |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Integrating Natural Language Prompting Tasks in Introductory Programming Courses. | Chris Kerslake, Paul Denny, David H. Smith, James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Stephen MacNeil |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Discussing 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 |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Solving 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 |
| 2023 | ACE | My 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 |
| 2023 | ICER | Benefits of Failure on Neuroplasticity and Tools for Persistence. | Masoumeh Rahimi, Lauren E. Margulieux, James Prather, Gozde Cetin Uzun, Bailey Kimmel |
| 2023 | ITiCSE | Chat Overflow: Artificially Intelligent Models for Computing Education - renAIssance or apocAIypse? | Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen, James Prather |
| 2023 | ITiCSE | The 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 |
| 2023 | ITiCSE | Transformed 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 |
| 2023 | ITiCSE | Evaluating 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 |
| 2023 | SIGCSE | Using Large Language Models to Enhance Programming Error Messages. | Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas, Sami Sarsa, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker |
| 2023 | SIGCSE | Community Input for CS2023: Society, Ethics and Professionalism. | Brett A. Becker, Richard Blumenthal, Mikey Goldweber, James Prather, Susan Reiser, Michelle Trim, Titus Winters |
| 2023 | SIGCSE | Programming 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 |
| 2023 | SIGCSE | The 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 |
| 2023 | SIGCSE | First 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 |
| 2022 | ACE | The 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 |
| 2022 | ICER | Getting 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 |
| 2022 | ITiCSE | Planning a Multi-institutional and Multi-national Study of the Effectiveness of Parsons Problems. | Barbara J. Ericson, Paul Denny, James Prather, Rodrigo Duran, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Craig S. Miller, Briana B. Morrison, Janice L. Pearce, Susan H. Rodger |
| 2022 | ITiCSE | Parsons Problems and Beyond: Systematic Literature Review and Empirical Study Designs. | Barbara J. Ericson, Paul Denny, James Prather, Rodrigo Duran, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Craig S. Miller, Briana B. Morrison, Janice L. Pearce, Susan H. Rodger |
| 2022 | SIGCSE | From 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 |
| 2022 | SIGCSE | Novice Reflections During the Transition to a New Programming Language. | Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Nigel Bosch, James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Jacqueline Whalley |
| 2021 | ACE | Towards Assessing the Readability of Programming Error Messages. | Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Robert Nix, Catherine Mooney |
| 2021 | CHI | On 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 |
| 2020 | ICER | What 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 |
| 2020 | ITiCSE | Error Message Readability and Novice Debugging Performance. | Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker |
| 2019 | ITiCSE | Compiler 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 |
| 2019 | ITiCSE | Unexpected 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 |
| 2019 | SIGCSE | First 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 |
| 2018 | ICER | Metacognitive Difficulties Faced by Novice Programmers in Automated Assessment Tools. | James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Kayla Holcomb McMurry, Alani L. Peters, John Homer, Maxine S. Cohen |
| 2017 | ICER | On Novices' Interaction with Compiler Error Messages: A Human Factors Approach. | James Prather, Raymond Pettit, Kayla Holcomb McMurry, Alani L. Peters, John Homer, Nevan Simone, Maxine S. Cohen |