Week

Date

Topic

Readings

1

1/09

Intros & Planning

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2

1/16

GenAI in CS1

J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Laryn Qi, Björn Hartmann, John DeNero, and Narges Norouzi. 2025. 61A Bot Report: AI Assistants in CS1 Save Students Homework Time and Reduce Demands on Staff. (Now What?). In (SIGCSETS 2025). 1309–1315. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641554.3701864

3

1/23

Effective TA Interactions

Leah Perlmutter, Jean Salac, and Amy J. Ko. 2023. "A field where you will be accepted": Belonging in student and TA interactions in post-secondary CS education. In (ICER '23), 356–370. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568813.3600128

4

1/30

Community Building in CS programs

Niharika Bhaskar, Amari N. Lewis, Rona Darabi, Joana Fang, Jingting Liu, Kristen Vaccaro, Joe Gibbs Politz, and Mia Minnes. 2024. Welcoming Students to Undergraduate Computer Science Programs: On-ramps, Rest Areas, and Lane Changes. (SIGCSE 2024). 109–115. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630964 

5

2/06

K-12: NLP in Middle school

Gloria Ashiya Katuka, Srijita Chakraburty, Hyejeong Lee, Sunny Dhama, Toni Earle-Randell, Mehmet Celepkolu, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Krista Glazewski, Cindy Hmelo-Silver, and Tom Mcklin. 2024. Integrating Natural Language Processing in Middle School Science Classrooms: An Experience Report. In (SIGCSE 2024). 639–645. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630881 

6

2/13

Student presentations: Code Interviews + ACE

Suhas Kannam, Yuri Yang, Aarya Dharm, and Kevin Lin. 2025. Code Interviews: Design and Evaluation of a More Authentic Assessment for Introductory Programming Assignments. In (SIGCSETS 2025). 554–560. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641554.3701806 

Jolie Zhou, Yunseo Lee, Suh Young Choi, Simon Wu, and Mitchell Levy. 2025. A Student-Led Association for Computing Education: A Two-Year Experience Report. In (SIGCSETS 2025). 1323–1329. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641554.3701963 

7

2/20

SIGCSE TS 2025 Program Preview

SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2025

8

2/27

SIGCSE TS 2025

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9

3/06

Course Management Tools

Cameron Brown and Laura Cruz Castro. 2025. Coordinate: A Virtual Classroom Management Tool For Large Computer Science Courses Using Discord. In (SIGCSETS 2025). 165–171. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641554.3701961

10

3/13

Accessibility

Wajdi Aljedaani, Marcelo Medeiros Eler, and P D Parthasarathy. 2025. Enhancing Accessibility in Software Engineering Projects with Large Language Models (LLMs). In (SIGCSETS 2025)., 25–31. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641554.3701841