John Thomas Bacher

College of Engineering

2023 article

Investigating the Impact of On-Demand Code Examples on Novices' Open-Ended Programming Projects

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2023 ACM CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL COMPUTING EDUCATION RESEARCH V.1, ICER 2023 V1, pp. 464–475.

By: W. Wang*, J. Bacher n, A. Isvik n, A. Limke n, S. Sthapit n, Y. Shi n, B. Tabarsi n, K. Tran n ...

author keywords: open-ended programming; code examples; block-based programming; novice programming
TL;DR: It was found that students who had access to all 37 code examples used a significantly larger variety of code APIs, perceived the programming as relatively more creative, but also experienced a higher task load. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: September 11, 2023

2021 article

Interactive Fiction Creation in Villanelle: Understanding and Supporting the Author Experience

2021 IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON VISUAL LANGUAGES AND HUMAN-CENTRIC COMPUTING (VL/HCC 2021).

By: J. Bacher n & C. Martens n

author keywords: interactive fiction; block-based programming; behavior trees; game development; developer experience
TL;DR: A participatory design process in which the author experience with Villanelle is assessed and a new tool iteration is built to support their needs to demonstrate the strong potential ofVillanelle's incorporation of behavior trees as an easy-to-Learn computational model for character AI. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education (OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: June 6, 2022

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