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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs

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This paper cites A survey of software refactoring,.

Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs A survey of software refactoring,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs A comparative study of manual and automated refactorings,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Peer review in programming courses: Benefits, implementations, and experiences,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs How we refactor, and how we know it,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs CodeRL: Mastering code generation through pretrained models and deep reinforcement learning,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Fowler, K

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Why we refactor? Confes- sions of GitHub contributors,

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This paper cites Exploring the impact of inter-smell relations on software maintainability: An empirical study,.

Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Exploring the impact of inter-smell relations on software maintainability: An empirical study,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Do they really smell bad? A study on developers’ perception of bad code smells,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Teaching object oriented modelling using concept maps,

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This paper cites An empirical investigation on the use of automated refactoring tools,.

Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs An empirical investigation on the use of automated refactoring tools,

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This paper cites Preparing the next generation of software engineers to tackle cloud- based challenges,.

Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Preparing the next generation of software engineers to tackle cloud- based challenges,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Work for us? An empirical study on student volunteers contributing to OSS projects,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs JDeodorant: Iden- tification and removal of type-checking bad smells,

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This paper cites On the diffusion of test smells in automatically generated test code: An empirical study,.

Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs On the diffusion of test smells in automatically generated test code: An empirical study,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code

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This paper cites An empirical study on learning bug-fixing patches in the wild via neural machine translation,.

Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs An empirical study on learning bug-fixing patches in the wild via neural machine translation,

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This paper cites Pythia: AI- assisted code completion system,.

Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Pythia: AI- assisted code completion system,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs On the use of large language models for computer science education,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Fakhoury, D

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Zhang, Y

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Thinking like a developer? Comparing the attention of humans with neural models of code,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Refactoring vs Refuctoring Whitepaper,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs An Empirical Study on the Potential of LLMs in Automated Software Refactoring

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs How effective are neural networks for fixing security vulnerabilities,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs An empirical study of pre-trained model-based code refactoring,

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Can you explain what this class does step by step?

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs What potential code smells do you see in this class?

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Provide test cases to verify the correctness of the refac- tored class

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Here are three examples of refactored methods: [Examples]. Using these as guidelines, refactor the following method: [Method to refactor]

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Now, start with step 1 for this method: [Method to refactor]” D

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Refactor only one class/method at a time and explain why the change is needed

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs How does this class fit into the larger project? Suggest improvements in that context

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Teaching Code Refactoring Using LLMs Modify this code to follow Ruby on Rails best prac- tices

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