FoL 2026
EDM

Teaching Language Models How to Code Like Learners: Conversational Serialization for Student Simulation

Fri Jul 3, 2:25 PM–2:40 PM · North 209
★ Notable speakers
Juho Leinonen — LLMs in computing education; code generation; AI-assisted programming for novices; CS education research
Arto Hellas — Computing education; MOOCs; learning analytics for programming; generative AI in CS teaching

A paper teaching language models to generate student-like code by serializing conversational coding interactions for learner simulation.

Authors

Charles Koutcheme, Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas