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Teaching Programming in the Age of Generative AI: Insights from Literature, Pedagogical Proposals, and Student Perspectives

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00108v1
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:38:27 GMT
Title: Teaching Programming in the Age of Generative AI: Insights from Literature, Pedagogical Proposals, and Student Perspectives
Authors: Clemente Rubio-Manzano, Jazna Meza, Rodolfo Fernandez-Santibanez, Christian Vidal-Castro,
Abstract summary: This article aims to review the most relevant studies on how programming content should be taught, learned, and assessed.<n>It proposes enriching teaching and learning methodologies by focusing on code comprehension and execution.<n>It advocates for the use of visual representations of code and visual simulations of its execution as effective tools for teaching, learning, and assessing programming.
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Abstract: Computer programming is undergoing a true transformation driven by powerful new tools for automatic source code generation based on large language models. This transformation is also manifesting in introductory programming courses at universities around the world, generating an in-depth debate about how programming content should be taught, learned, and assessed in the context of generative artificial intelligence. This article aims, on the one hand, to review the most relevant studies on this issue, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages identified in the specialized literature. On the other hand, it proposes enriching teaching and learning methodologies by focusing on code comprehension and execution rather than on mere coding or program functionality. In particular, it advocates for the use of visual representations of code and visual simulations of its execution as effective tools for teaching, learning, and assessing programming, thus fostering a deeper understanding among students. Finally, the opinions of students who took the object-oriented programming course are presented to provide preliminary context supporting the incorporation of visual simulations in Java (or other languages) as part of the training process.

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