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Coderunner: a tool for assessing computer programming skills

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Richard Lobb,

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ACM Inroads, Volume 7, Issue 1

Pages 47 - 51

https://doi.org/10.1145/2810041

Published: 12 February 2016 Publication History

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How should we assess programming skills? Asking students to write code in a traditional hand-written exam can produce results like those in Figure 1. It is nearly impossible to meaningfully grade such code. With sufficient effort one can get some idea of whether the general idea is correct, but to assess programming skill we need much more than this. For example, there will almost certainly be errors in the code; how do we know whether the student would be able to correct those errors or not?

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CodeRunner repository; https://github.com/trampgeek/CodeRunner. Accessed 2015 May 21.

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Nick Parlante's CodingBat site; http://codingbat.com. Accessed 2015 May 21.

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ACM Inroads Volume 7, Issue 1

March 2016

46 pages

ISSN:2153-2184

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DOI:10.1145/2893369

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Hamilton College

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