Week

Date

Topic

Readings

1

4/03

Intros & Planning

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2

4/10

SIGCSE TS Reflections

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3

4/17

AI Policy in an ML Course

James Weichert, Hoda Eldardiry. 2025. Educating a Responsible AI Workforce: Piloting a Curricular Module on AI Policy in a Graduate Machine Learning Course. Accepted at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07931 

4

4/24

Grading

Jack Forden, Matthew Schneider, Alexander Gebhard, Md. Tahmidul Islam Molla, and Dennis Brylow. 2025. Unlocking Student Potential With TA-Bot: Timely Submissions and Improved Code Style. In (SIGCSETS 2025). 346–352. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641554.3701955

5

5/01

CS + X

Melanie Walsh, Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python, Version 1 (2021), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4411250

Guest speaker: Melanie Walsh

6

5/08

Mixed experience

G. Aaron Wilkin, Jason A. Yoder, and Mitchel J. Daniel. 2025. TIPS for Students! A Fair and Equitable Way to Require, Motivate and Reward Creativity and Student-initiated Activities. In (SIGCSETS 2025). 1218–1224. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641554.3701846

7

5/15

Tech Literacy

Irene Hou, Owen Man, Kate Hamilton, Srishty Muthusekaran, Jeffin Johnykutty, Leili Zadeh, and Stephen MacNeil. 2025. 'All Roads Lead to ChatGPT': How Generative AI is Eroding Social Interactions and Student Learning Communities. In (ITiCSE 2025), 79–85. https://doi.org/10.1145/3724363.3729024 

8

5/22

The Role of TAs 

Grace Barkhuff, Ian Pruitt, Vyshnavi Namani, William Gregory Johnson, Rodrigo Borela, Ellen Zegura, Anu G. Bourgeois, and Ben Rydal Shapiro. 2025. Exploring the Humanistic Role of Computer Science Teaching Assistants across Diverse Institutions. In (SIGCSETS 2025). 67–73. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641554.3701861 

9

5/29

PLs in Intro

Nabeel Alzahrani, Frank Vahid, Alex Edgcomb, Kevin Nguyen, and Roman Lysecky. 2018. Python Versus C++: An Analysis of Student Struggle on Small Coding Exercises in Introductory Programming Courses. In (SIGCSE '18). 86–91. https://doi.org/10.1145/3159450.3160586

10

6/05

Intro CS + Fabrication

Zachary Dodds, Malia Morgan, Lindsay Popowski, Henry Coxe, Caroline Coxe, Kewei Zhou, Eliot Bush, and Ran Libeskind-Hadas. 2021. A Biology-based CS1: Results and Reflections, Ten Years In. In (SIGCSE '21), 796–801. https://doi.org/10.1145/3408877.3432469