James Prather

James Prather

Abilene Christian University

H-index: 19

North America-United States

About James Prather

James Prather, With an exceptional h-index of 19 and a recent h-index of 19 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Abilene Christian University, specializes in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science Education, Digital Humanities.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Interactions with Prompt Problems: A New Way to Teach Programming with Large Language Models

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

Solving Proof Block Problems Using Large Language Models

Prompt Problems: A new programming exercise for the generative AI era

Generative AI in Education: A Study of Educators' Awareness, Sentiments, and Influencing Factors

Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI

Discussing the Changing Landscape of Generative AI in Computing Education

"It's Weird That it Knows What I Want": Usability and Interactions with Copilot for Novice Programmers

James Prather Information

University

Position

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Citations(all)

1391

Citations(since 2020)

1374

Cited By

158

hIndex(all)

19

hIndex(since 2020)

19

i10Index(all)

25

i10Index(since 2020)

25

Email

University Profile Page

Abilene Christian University

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James Prather Skills & Research Interests

Human-Computer Interaction

Computer Science Education

Digital Humanities

Top articles of James Prather

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Interactions with Prompt Problems: A New Way to Teach Programming with Large Language Models

arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.10759

James Prather

Paul Denny

Juho Leinonen

David H Smith IV

Brent N Reeves

...

2024/1/19

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

arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.06050

Paul Denny

David H Smith IV

Max Fowler

James Prather

Brett A Becker

...

2024/3/10

Solving Proof Block Problems Using Large Language Models

Seth Poulsen

Sami Sarsa

James Prather

Juho Leinonen

Brett A Becker

...

2024/3/7

Prompt Problems: A new programming exercise for the generative AI era

Paul Denny

Juho Leinonen

James Prather

Andrew Luxton-Reilly

Thezyrie Amarouche

...

2024/3/7

Generative AI in Education: A Study of Educators' Awareness, Sentiments, and Influencing Factors

arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.15586

Aashish Ghimire

James Prather

John Edwards

2024/3/22

Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI

Communications of the ACM

Paul Denny

James Prather

Brett A Becker

James Finnie-Ansley

Arto Hellas

...

2024/1/25

Discussing the Changing Landscape of Generative AI in Computing Education

Stephen MacNeil

Juho Leinonen

Paul Denny

Natalie Kiesler

Arto Hellas

...

2024/3/14

"It's Weird That it Knows What I Want": Usability and Interactions with Copilot for Novice Programmers

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

James Prather

Brent N Reeves

Paul Denny

Brett A Becker

Juho Leinonen

...

2023/11/29

AI in Computing Education from Research to Practice

Bita Akram

Juho Leinonen

Narges Norouzi

James Prather

Lisa Zhang

2024/3/14

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

...

2023

First steps towards predicting the readability of programming error messages

James Prather

Paul Denny

Brett A Becker

Robert Nix

Brent N Reeves

...

2023/3/2

Evaluating the performance of code generation models for solving Parsons problems with small prompt variations

Brent Reeves

Sami Sarsa

James Prather

Paul Denny

Brett A Becker

...

2023/6/29

Using Large Language Models to Enhance Programming Error Messages

Juho Leinonen

Arto Hellas

Sami Sarsa

Brent Reeves

Paul Denny

...

2023/3/2

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

Paul Denny

Brett A Becker

Juho Leinonen

James Prather

2023/6/29

The robots are here: Navigating the generative ai revolution in computing education

James Prather

Paul Denny

Juho Leinonen

Brett A Becker

Ibrahim Albluwi

...

2023/12/22

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

...

2023/1/30

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

...

2023/6/29

Leverage Biology to Learn Rapidly From Mistakes Without Feeling Like a Failure

Computing in Science & Engineering

Lauren E Margulieux

James Prather

Masoumeh Rahimi

Gozde Cetin Uzun

2023/8/25

Generative AI in Introductory Programming

BRETT A BECKER

MICHELLE CRAIG

PAUL DENNY

HIEKE KEUNING

NATALIE KIESLER

...

2023

łIt’s Weird That it Knows What I Wantž: Usability and Interactions with Copilot for Novice Programmers

arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.02491

James Prather

Brent N Reeves

Paul Denny

Brett A Becker

Juho Leinonen

...

2023/4

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Co-Authors

H-index: 41
Paul Denny

Paul Denny

University of Auckland

H-index: 40
Andrew Luxton-Reilly

Andrew Luxton-Reilly

University of Auckland

H-index: 36
Arto Hellas

Arto Hellas

Aalto-yliopisto

H-index: 35
Brett A. Becker

Brett A. Becker

University College Dublin

H-index: 26
Michelle Craig

Michelle Craig

University of Toronto

H-index: 21
Juho Leinonen

Juho Leinonen

Aalto-yliopisto

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