Project synthesis

[amyjko]

What's the problem?

There are many examples we've built out that are compelling starting points. However, they are hard for students to imagine how to combine, and so the space of examples is sparse.

What's the design idea?

Generative LLM-based approaches, which would allow text descriptions of some behavior, generating a skeleton for students to start from, might be more compelling. There is much to do to help a student or teacher move from the skeleton, however, and most of these are open research questions:

• How can creators iterate on their program, either through their description or through code?
• How can creators use non-English languages to generate skeletons?
• How can generative AI techniques be used on a new programming language with very few examples?

Who benefits?

All creators starting a new project.

Design specification

(This section should be included after a design proposal is ready and approved, and the buildable tag is added. This text can remain until then. Designers should add their proposal here, not in a comment).

[sdahl4]

I would like to be assigned to this issue to conduct a research literature review!

[amyjko]

Sure thing. Lots of literature in the past few years to study on this. Having a list of recent works with short summarize of what they teach us would be very valuable.