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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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This paper cites Work for us? An empirical study on student volunteers contributing to OSS projects,.

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 Refactor this class to improve readability and maintain- ability

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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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