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Prompting Without Principles: Are Students Transferring Software Engineering Knowledge to LLM Use?

July 13, 2026 • Conference Paper

By Leonardo Sousa , Ipek Ozkaya , James Ivers , Celina Cywinska , Bingyu Xie , Mena Kostial , Tapajit Dey , Robert Edman

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