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Substance Beats Style: Why Beginning Students Fail to Code with LLMs

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Main Authors:	Lucchetti, Francesca, Wu, Zixuan, Guha, Arjun, Feldman, Molly Q, Anderson, Carolyn Jane
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2024
Subjects:	Computers and Society Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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