--- title: How Students Are Using AI-Powered Hints in Programming... description: JetBrains Education Research team studied how students interact with an AI-powered hints tool integrated into JetBrains Academy courses via the IDE plugin.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-students-are-using-ai-powered-hints-in-programming-courses-yseosarg1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Students Are Using AI-Powered Hints in Programming Courses | daily.dev og:description: JetBrains Education Research team studied how students interact with an AI-powered hints tool integrated into JetBrains Academy courses via the IDE plugin.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-students-are-using-ai-powered-hints-in-programming-courses-yseosarg1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YSeOsArG1.png og:image:alt: How Students Are Using AI-Powered Hints in Programming Courses og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Students Are Using AI-Powered Hints in Programming Courses **[JetBrains](https://daily.dev/sources/jetbrains)** · 19 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary JetBrains Education Research team studied how students interact with an AI-powered hints tool integrated into JetBrains Academy courses via the IDE plugin. Using process mining on a dataset of over 1 million IDE events and 1,400+ hint requests from 34 students learning Kotlin, they identified three session types: positive (28%, hint accepted), neutral (40%, hint seen but not directly applied), and negative (27%, error or cancellation). Qualitative interviews with six students revealed two key behavioral patterns in neutral sessions: 'selective use of hints' (manually adapting hints for better learning) and 'combining partial solutions' (merging information from multiple hint attempts). Key findings show students are active problem solvers who critically analyze hints rather than blindly accepting them, and that the tool should better support partial hint adoption and simultaneous multi-hint display. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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