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A question at the right moment

Harvard CS50’s teaching team explored AI support built around hints and explanations.

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Teaching project · 2023–2024

Teaching CS50 with AI — Liu and colleagues, Harvard ↗

The project description is distinct from the practice proposed below.

The human contribution

The course team designed the teaching approach and support tools; students worked through the programming tasks.

The computational contribution

Conversational help with explaining code and offering task-specific support.

What was made or demonstrated

A deployed teaching-support project described in the team’s paper, Teaching CS50 with AI. The case illustrates a design approach; usage is not treated here as a learning-outcome measure. Source ↗

AN ORIGINAL PRACTICE TO TRY

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Explain one programming idea in your own words. Ask an AI to pose one guiding question. Revise your explanation after answering it. Keep both versions.

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