Artificiell intelligens som verktyg i programmeringsstudier : Användningsfrekvens, användningsområden och användningsgrad hos studenter vars studier involverar programmering

Sammanfattning

Artificial intelligence is an emerging technology with constantly expanding applications. Asthe technology evolves, us humans are becoming more adept at utilizing this new tool. Research investigating the use of artificial intelligence indicates an increase in productivity among its users. However, how have students adapted to this tool? In this study, we examined the use of artificial intelligence among student programmers. We collected and analyzed data on the frequency, area of use and extent of AI usage through a survey completed by 90 programming students. The responses we received came from three types of student programmers: system developers, frontend web developers and full-stack web developers. The results show that artificial intelligence is primarily used for code explanation, as a source of inspiration, for correcting erroneous code, and for bug fixing. Web developers use artificial intelligence for approximately one-third of their assignments. Half of these students use artificial intelligence on half, or more than half, of the days they actively study programming. System developers use artificial intelligence for slightly more than half of their assignments and approximately three-quarters of them use artificial intelligence on half, or more than half, of the days they study. Web developers delegate slightly less than one-fifth of the work per assignment to artificial intelligence, while system developers, on average, delegate 42.5% of the work to artificial intelligence.