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CS50-Duck

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CS50-Duck is a subject-matter conversational agent developed for and deployed in Harvard's CS50 programming course through the CS50 platform and Visual Studio Code.

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  • CS50-Duck conversational agent for Harvard's CS50 course: CS50-Duck is a CA deployed in Harvard's CS50 course, operating within the CS50 platform and Visual Studio Code. The review reports it "strives for a 1:1 teacher-student ratio by providing a subject-matter expert bot", and that its deployment achieved positive outcomes such as providing continuous and individualized support, allowing human educators to focus on more complex pedagogical issues. It also integrates a heart-based feedback system as a gamification mechanic. (Barzanji et al. (2025))

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  • Barzanji and Loitsch. (2025). Exploring conversational agents for novice programmers: a scoping review. Discover Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44163-025-00521-4
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title CS50-Duck
description CS50-Duck is a subject-matter conversational agent developed for and deployed in Harvard's CS50 programming course through the CS50 platform and Visual Studio Code.
status review
product_kind software
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