Pith Number

pith:75FN73HZ

pith:2026:75FN73HZICBJEFZ7FERHEVCO5J

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"Why Put in This Much Effort?": How AI Availability Shapes Students' Motivation in Introductory Programming

Colton Harper, Keith Tran, Thomas Price

arxiv:2606.30480 v1 · 2026-06-29 · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{75FN73HZICBJEFZ7FERHEVCO5J}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-30T02:18:17.117380Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ff4adfecf9408292173f292272544eea645ff9e89b32d51ce364f545699ad775

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.30480 · arxiv_version: 2606.30480v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.30480 · pith_short_12: 75FN73HZICBJ · pith_short_16: 75FN73HZICBJEFZ7 · pith_short_8: 75FN73HZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/75FN73HZICBJEFZ7FERHEVCO5J \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ff4adfecf9408292173f292272544eea645ff9e89b32d51ce364f545699ad775

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3b2c33aab1ea7aaf164ac34f77a1bc7d2f27babaf0ba643b415b4ac4783486d4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-29T15:41:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dc418e7132284ff5edcda1f7e86c6f318386d87e1a3287ad49e1e8ae78ee3e3f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.30480",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}