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A web-based generation and delivery system for active code reading

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Daniel Malcolm Hoffman,

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SIGCSE '11: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

March 2011

Pages 483 - 488

https://doi.org/10.1145/1953163.1953301

Published: 09 March 2011 Publication History

Abstract

In Computer Science courses, we ask students to write a lot of code. All too often, the resulting code quality is poor. While it is widely believed that students would write better code if they spent more time reading code, it is difficult to get students to read code effectively. We present a web-based application supporting generation and delivery of quizzes designed to evaluate and improve code reading skills.

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SIGCSE '11: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

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DOI:10.1145/1953163

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