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AI in CS Education
Affect-aware AI, intelligent tutoring, generative AI in programming education, and the Emotion-Modulated Programming (EMP) model — the territory of Atif Ahmad’s doctoral research.
See the research → Jul 7, 2026
AI can write the code. The real question is whether the student still learns.
Generative AI can pass entire intro programming courses — but the literature shows the danger isn't bad code, it's bypassing the reasoning that learning to program is for. The design goal: support thinking, don't supplant it.
Jun 22, 2026Affect-aware tutoring is growing up — and 2024's frontier is explainability
Emotion-aware tutoring systems have crossed from promise to engineering discipline. The harder question now isn't whether a system can read a learner's affect, but whether it can explain why it acted on it — and that's a governance question as much as a research one.