Teaching Programming in the Age of Generative AI
Simone Martini · 2024
Programming has been considered the "essence of informatics" since the beginning of computing as a discipline. But programming in the fifties was very different from what we know today, and one of the goals (or dreams) throughout the history of programming language technology, has been "automatic programming''---the ability to automatically generate computer code starting from a high(er)-level description of the specification of that code. What this meant changed over the years, from punching paper tape, to compiling high-level programming languages, to program synthesis.