AI RESEARCH
AI-Generated Traces for Novice Programmers: Learning Effects and Learner Differences in a Multi-Institutional Study
arXiv CS.AI
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Introductory programming (CS1) courses often struggle to support students' understanding of program execution. We propose Generated Animated Traces (GATs), AI-generated, analogy-based, narrated animations that coordinate source code, execution state, and conceptual analogies. We conduct a study at two institutions i