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Teaching programming to novices is best done with tools with simpler user interfaces than professional IDEs that are tailored for experienced programmers. In a distance learning situation it is also important to have a development…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Marc Feeley , Olivier Melançon

This paper explores the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and in particular ChatGPT in programming, source code analysis, and code generation. LLMs and ChatGPT are built using machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Ahmed R. Sadik , Antonello Ceravola , Frank Joublin , Jibesh Patra

Does the choice of programming language affect energy consumption? Previous highly visible studies have established associations between certain programming languages and energy consumption. A causal misinterpretation of this work has led…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Nicolas van Kempen , Hyuk-Je Kwon , Dung Tuan Nguyen , Emery D. Berger

Ezhil is a Tamil language based interpreted procedural programming language. Tamil keywords and grammar are chosen to make the native Tamil speaker write programs in the Ezhil system. Ezhil allows easy representation of computer program…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-07-29 Muthiah Annamalai

Educational chatbots have gained prominence as support tools for teaching programming, particularly in introductory learning contexts. This paper presents a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) that investigated how such agents have been…

Recent progress in logic programming (e.g., the development of the Answer Set Programming paradigm) has made it possible to teach it to general undergraduate and even high school students. Given the limited exposure of these students to…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Elias Marcopoulos , Christian Reotutar , Yuanlin Zhang

High-level reversible programming languages are few and far between and in general offer only rudimentary abstractions from the details of the underlying machine. Modern programming languages offer a wide array of language constructs and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Tue Haulund

R is a robust open-source programming language mainly used for statistical computing . Many areas of statistical research are experiencing rapid growth in the size of data sets. Methodological advances drive increased use of simulations. A…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Rahim K. Charania

Python has gained widespread popularity in the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data engineering due to its effectiveness and extensive libraries. R, on its side, remains a dominant language for statistical analysis…

This work offers a broad perspective on probabilistic modeling and inference in light of recent advances in probabilistic programming, in which models are formally expressed in Turing-complete programming languages. We consider a typical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-20 Lawrence M. Murray , Thomas B. Schön

Current approaches to making programming languages and reasoning assistants more effective for people focus on leveraging feedback from users and on evaluating the success of particular techniques. These approaches, although helpful, may…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Michael Coblenz

Object-oriented scripting languages such as JavaScript or Python gain in popularity due to their flexibility. Still, the growing code bases written in the languages call for methods that make possible to automatically control the properties…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Viviana Bono , Marcin Benke , Aleksy Schubert

Rust is a young programming language gaining increased attention from software developers since it was introduced to the world by Mozilla in 2010. In this study, we attempt to answer several research questions. Does Rust deserve such…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-06-17 William Bugden , Ayman Alahmar

Powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tools that have emerged in recent years -- including large language models, automated coding assistants, and advanced image and speech generation technologies -- are the result of monumental human…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Jarvis Haupt , Qin Lu , Yanning Shen , Jia Chen , Yue Dong , Dan McCreary , Mehmet Akçakaya , Georgios B. Giannakis

Recent work has shown that prompting language models with code-like representations of natural language leads to performance improvements on structured reasoning tasks. However, such tasks comprise only a small subset of all natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Li Zhang , Liam Dugan , Hainiu Xu , Chris Callison-Burch

Code corpora, as observed in large software systems, are now known to be far more repetitive and predictable than natural language corpora. But why? Does the difference simply arise from the syntactic limitations of programming languages?…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Casey Casalnuovo , Kenji Sagae , Prem Devanbu

Robotics programming typically involves a trade-off between the ease of use offered by Python and the run-time performance of C++. While multi-language architectures address this trade-off by coupling Python's ergonomics with C++'s speed,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Gustavo Nunes Goretkin , Joseph Carpinelli , Andy Park

In computer programming languages, indentation formats program source code to improve readability. Programming languages make use of indentation to define program structure .Programmers use indentation to understand the structure of their…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Niranjan Kumar Parvatham

Popularity of the use of free software in the IT industry is much higher than its popular use in educational activities. Disadvantages of free software and problems of its implementation in the educational process is a limiting factor for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Vladyslav Velychko

This paper is a reproduction of work by Ray et al. which claimed to have uncovered a statistically significant association between eleven programming languages and software defects in projects hosted on GitHub. First we conduct an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Emery D. Berger , Celeste Hollenbeck , Petr Maj , Olga Vitek , Jan Vitek