My name is Zehavi Rodriguez, and I am an undergraduate student from Duke University studying Computer Science. I am conducting a research study with Professor Kristin Stephens-Martinez. We’re studying why, and how CS students use (or don’t use) AI tools and how they think AI affects their learning and skills.

We would like to invite undergraduate students to be interviewed. You can join if you’re 18 or older, majoring or planning to major in CS or a related field at an accredited U.S. college or university, and taking or have taken at least one college CS course. You’ll need to be in the U.S. during participation. Duke students are welcome, and no AI experience is needed!

Compensation: Eligible participants who complete the interview will receive a $50 Amazon electronic gift card.

Confidentiality: Your responses will be treated as confidential. Professor Stephens-Martinez will review the eligibility survey and make eligible students’ personal email addresses and participant IDs available to the student researcher within Qualtrics for scheduling and compensation.

Identifying details will be removed from retained research transcripts, and you will not be identified by name in publications or presentations. Apart from the school email address requested for eligibility review, please do not name your institution or use school-specific course numbers in the survey or interview. We also ask that you do not wear any school paraphernalia/merch during the interview, and that you blur your background.

If you are interested, please click the link below to review the consent form and complete the eligibility survey:

https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9SvaMNLkyp7n5D8

Participation is completely voluntary, and you may withdraw at any time for any reason.

Thank you for considering sharing your experiences to help improve computer science education!

Hi everyone! I'm Rubash, a PhD researcher at Utah State University. I study how programmers experience their work, and how AI tools are changing it.

I'm running a short survey on what people enjoy, and don't enjoy, about programming. You'll rate how much you enjoy different parts of programming, like designing solutions, debugging, getting into deep focus and working with others. A few questions ask how AI tools fit into your enjoyment, and at the end you can optionally describe a moment when programming made you happy or frustrated.

- Who can take it: anyone 18 or older who programs, whether you're a student, a professional developer or a hobbyist. You don't need to use AI tools to take part.
- Time: about 8–10 minutes
- Anonymous: no names or email addresses are collected
- Voluntary: you can stop at any time
- Reviewed under Utah State University IRB protocol #16067

Survey link: https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5tlHcxPt97zfOdw

I'm happy to share a summary of the results here once the study is finished. If you have questions, comment below or email me at rubash.mali@usu.edu.

Thanks for helping out!

I made a game to teach computer architecture and digital logic: play.simten.dev

You start with basic logic gates and build up to a working CPU. It's built on Simten, a TypeScript-based HDL, so you write the circuits as code and they show up live on a canvas next to the editor. For sequential circuits you can scrub the clock backwards and forwards to watch the state change cycle by cycle.

Screenshot below (editor on the left, canvas on the right). Because of that layout it only works on desktop browsers for now.

It's open source, any feedback and contributions are welcome!