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arXiv:2507.22900 (cs)
[Submitted on 26 Jun 2025 (v1), last revised 16 Sep 2025 (this
version, v4)]

Title:New Kid in the Classroom: Exploring Student Perceptions of AI
Coding Assistants

Authors:Sergio Rojas-Galeano
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    Abstract:The arrival of AI coding assistants in educational
    settings presents a paradigm shift, introducing a "new kid in the
    classroom" for both students and instructors. Thus, understanding
    the perceptions of these key actors about this new dynamic is
    critical. This exploratory study contributes to this area by
    investigating how these tools are shaping the experiences of
    novice programmers in an introductory programming course. Through
    a two-part exam, we investigated student perceptions by first
    providing access to AI support for a programming task and then
    requiring an extension of the solution without it. We collected
    Likert-scale and open-ended responses from 20 students to
    understand their perceptions on the challenges they faced. Our
    findings reveal that students perceived AI tools as helpful for
    grasping code concepts and boosting their confidence during the
    initial development phase. However, a noticeable difficulty
    emerged when students were asked to work unaided, pointing to
    potential overreliance and gaps in foundational knowledge
    transfer. These insights highlight a critical need for new
    pedagogical approaches that integrate AI effectively while
    effectively enhancing core programming skills, rather than
    impersonating them.

          A shorter version of the manuscript (16 pages) has been
Comments: accepted for publication in the Proceedings of 19th
          Colombian Conference on Computing, CCC 2025
Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Artificial Intelligence
          (cs.AI)
Cite as:  arXiv:2507.22900 [cs.HC]
          (or arXiv:2507.22900v4 [cs.HC] for this version)
          https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.22900
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From: Sergio Rojas-Galeano [view email]
[v1] Thu, 26 Jun 2025 05:59:23 UTC (1,224 KB)
[v2] Tue, 26 Aug 2025 03:23:41 UTC (1,223 KB)
[v3] Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:10:35 UTC (1,223 KB)
[v4] Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:09:44 UTC (1,222 KB)
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