John Bacher

According to our database, John Bacher authored at least 10 papers between 2021 and 2026.

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2026

Investigating the Interaction of Game Features and Spatial Skills with Performance and Perceived Difficulty in a Block-Based 3D Programming Puzzle Game.

Yasitha Rajapaksha, John Thomas Bacher, Tiffany Barnes

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

2025

EclipseMonitor: A Real-Time Student Programming Environment Data Collection Tool.

Saminur Islam, Zhikai Gao, John Bacher, Gabriel Silva de Oliveira, Varad Patwardhan, Sarah Heckman, Collin Lynch

Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2, 2025

2024

Novices' Perceptions of Web-Search and AI for Programming.

James Skripchuk, John Bacher, Yang Shi, Keith Tran, Thomas W. Price

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

Are Engineering Students Motivated by Interacting With Simulations They Program? A Controlled Study.

John Bacher, Thomas W. Price, James Skripchuk, Wengran Wang, Yang Shi, Keith Tran

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Virtual Global Computing Education Conference V. 1, 2024

Overcoming Barriers in Scaling Computing Education Research Programming Tools: A Developer's Perspective.

Keith Tran, John Bacher, Yang Shi, James Skripchuk, Thomas W. Price

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2024

An Investigation of the Drivers of Novice Programmers' Intentions to Use Web Search and GenAI.

James Skripchuk, John Bacher, Thomas W. Price

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2024

2023

Investigating the Impact of On-Demand Code Examples on Novices' Open-Ended Programming Experience.

Wengran Wang, John Bacher, Amy Isvik, Ally Limke, Sandeep Sthapit, Yang Shi, Benyamin T. Tabarsi, Keith Tran, Veronica Cateté, Tiffany Barnes, Chris Martens, Thomas W. Price

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2023

Exploring Psychoacoustic Representations for Machine Learning Music Generation.

Bryan Wilson, James Skripchuk, John Bacher

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2023

2021

Interactive Fiction Creation in Villanelle: Understanding and Supporting the Author Experience.

John Thomas Bacher, Chris Martens

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2021

Casual Creation of Tile Maps via Authorable Constraint-Based Generators.

Dan Carpenter, John Thomas Bacher, Henry Crain, Chris Martens

Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the AIIDE 2021 Workshops co-located with 17th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2021)(AAAI 2021), 2021