This repository contains the replication package, hands-on materials, analysis scripts for the paper "Harnessing Hype to Teach Empirical Thinking: An Experience With AI Coding Assistants" accepted at FSE-SEET 2026 reporting on our seminar on AI coding assistants and empirical research.
The repository contains three main folders:
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/hands-on-exercisescontains the exercises for our three hands-on sessions. The first (code generation) and second hands-on session (explanation and refactoring) contains two separate exercises, while the third hands-on session (debugging) contains one exercise. -
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/hands-on-reflectioncontains the sosci survey for the reflections during the hands-on sessions as well as the Jupyter notebook script we used to analyze the data. -
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/seminar-reflectioncontains the sosci survey for the reflection after the seminar, the collected raw data, the annotated data (incl. codes and themes), as well as the Jupyter notebook script we used to analyze the quantitative data.
The SeminarDescription.md shows the used title and description when we offered the seminar at our university.
This repository is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
If you have questions, please contact us directly: [peitek@cs.uni-saarland.de]. Thank you!
