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Natural language processing models have emerged that can generate usable software and automate a number of programming tasks with high fidelity. These tools have yet to have an impact on the chemistry community. Yet, our initial testing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Glen M. Hocky , Andrew D. White

By paying more attention to semantics-based tool generation, programming language semantics can significantly increase its impact. Ultimately, this may lead to ``Language Design Assistants'' incorporating substantial amounts of semantic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jan Heering , Paul Klint

To solve hard problems, AI relies on a variety of disciplines such as logic, probabilistic reasoning, machine learning and mathematical programming. Although it is widely accepted that solving real-world problems requires an integration…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Vaishak Belle , Luc De Raedt

It has been argued that computational thinking should precede computer programming in the course of a career in computing. This argument is the basis for the slogan "logic first, syntax later" and the development of many cryptic syntax…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Patrick Vanvorce , Hasan M. Jamil

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT have become popular among programming students. Students use LLMs to assist them in programming courses, including generating source code. Previous work has evaluated the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Emir Catir , Robin Claesson , Rodothea Myrsini Tsoupidi

This is the study that presents an AI-Python-based chatbot that helps students to learn programming by demonstrating solutions to such problems as debugging errors, solving syntax problems or converting abstract theoretical concepts to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sayed Mahbub Hasan Amiri , Md Mainul Islam

When designing a program, both novice programmers and seasoned developers alike often sketch out -- or, perhaps more famously, whiteboard -- their ideas. Yet despite the introduction of natively multimodal Generative AI models, work on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-12 David H. Smith , S. Moonwara A. Monisha , Annapurna Vadaparty , Leo Porter , Daniel Zingaro

Computing artifacts tend to exclude marginalized students, so we must create new methods to critique and change them. We studied the potential for "satirical programming" to critique artifacts as part of culturally responsive computing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Aadarsh Padiyath , Tamara Nelson-Fromm , Barbara Ericson

There are tools to ease the 2D/3D graphics development for programmers. Sometimes, these are not directly accessible for all users requiring commercial licenses or based on trials, or long learning periods before to use them. In the modern…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Amaro Duarte , Esmitt Ramirez

As computer systems become more and more complex, software and tools lag more and more behind. This is especially true for scientific software that often demands high performance, and thus needs to take advantage of parallelisms, memory…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Anne C. Elster

The subject of this work is quantum predicative programming -- the study of developing of programs intended for execution on a quantum computer. We look at programming in the context of formal methods of program development, or programming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-19 Anya Tafliovich , E. C. R. Hehner

Probably building non procedural languages is the most prospective way for parallel programming just because non procedural means no fixed way for execution. The article consists of 3 parts. In first part we consider formal systems for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-11-03 Renat Nuriyev

Program correctness is one of the most difficult challenges in parallel programming. Message Passing Interface MPI is widely used in writing parallel applications. Since MPI is not a compiled language, the programmer will be enfaced with…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Alaa I. El-Nashar , Nakamura Masaki

The authors present the results of a simple usability test performed on line_explorer, an innovative tool aimed at letting students explore programming. The system offers an interactive environment where students can learn, review, and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Giovanni Vincenti , Scott Hilberg , James Braman , Michael Satzinger , Lily Cao

Since the advent of LISP, the fifth generation programming language has developed for decades. However, compared with the fourth generation programming language, the fifth generation programming language has not been widely used because of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Han Jipeng , Lichen Zhihang

In Computational Science, Engineering and Finance (CSEF) scripts typically serve as the "glue" between potentially highly complex and computationally expensive external subprograms. Differentiability of the resulting programs turns out to…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Uwe Naumann

Quantum computers have leaped from the theoretical realm into a race to large-scale implementations. This is due to the promise of revolutionary speedups, where achieving such speedup requires designing an algorithm that harnesses the…

$\{log\}$ is a programming language at the intersection of Constraint Logic Programming, set programming and declarative programming. But $\{log\}$ is also a satisfiability solver for a theory of finite sets and finite binary relations.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Maximiliano Cristiá , Gianfranco Rossi

Concurrency has been rapidly gaining importance in general-purpose computing, caused by the recent turn towards multicore processing architectures. As a result, an increasing number of developers have to learn to write concurrent programs,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Sebastian Nanz , Faraz Torshizi , Michela Pedroni , Bertrand Meyer

The transfer learning toolkit wraps the codes of 17 transfer learning models and provides integrated interfaces, allowing users to use those models by calling a simple function. It is easy for primary researchers to use this toolkit and to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Fuzhen Zhuang , Keyu Duan , Tongjia Guo , Yongchun Zhu , Dongbo Xi , Zhiyuan Qi , Qing He