Teaching Coding When AI Can Write the Code
Errors, the code structure, the awkward working solution—all of it showed how someone reasoned and where they got stuck. Radar > Topics > AI & MLTeaching Coding When AI Can Write the CodeNow that AI can write code, a student's submission no longer shows what they really understand. Here, I share three approaches we're testing at the University of Texas at Austin.
- ▪Errors, the code structure, the awkward working solution—all of it showed how someone reasoned and where they got stuck.
- ▪Radar > Topics > AI & MLTeaching Coding When AI Can Write the CodeNow that AI can write code, a student's submission no longer shows what they really understand.
- ▪Here, I share three approaches we're testing at the University of Texas at Austin.
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