{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/edbooks-ai-enhanced-interactive-narratives","title":"EDBooks: AI-Enhanced Interactive Narratives for Programming Education","arxiv_id":"2411.10687","date":"2024-11-16","proceeding":null,"authors":["Steve Oney","Yue Shen","Fei Wu","Young Suh Hong","Ziang Wang","Yamini Khajekar","Jiacheng Zhang","April Yi Wang"],"abstract":"Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown the potential to be valuable teaching tools, with the potential of giving every student a personalized tutor. However, one challenge with using LLMs to learn new concepts is that when learning a topic in an unfamiliar domain, it can be difficult to know what questions to ask. Further, language models do not always encourage \"active learning\" where students can test and assess their understanding. In this paper, we propose ways to combine large language models with \"traditional\" learning materials (like e-books) to give readers the benefits of working with LLMs (the ability to ask personally interesting questions and receive personalized answers) with the benefits of a traditional e-book (having a structure and content that is pedagogically sound). This work shows one way that LLMs have the potential to improve learning materials and make personalized programming education more accessible to a broader audience.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10687v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10687v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"edbooks-ai-enhanced-interactive-narratives","repo_url":"https://github.com/anonymizer/EDBook","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}