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Small, auto-gradable programming exercises provide a useful tool with which to assess students' programming skills in introductory computer science. To reduce the time needed to produce programming exercises of similar difficulty, previous research has ...

Integrating AI-driven tools in higher education is an emerging area with transformative potential. This paper introduces Iris, a chat-based virtual tutor integrated into the interactive learning platform Artemis that offers personalized, context-aware ...

Introductory programming courses often require students to solve many small programming exercises as part of their learning. Researchers have previously suggested that the context used in the problem description for these exercises is likely to impact ...

Introductory courses usually only teach a small subset of a programming language and its library, in order to focus on the general concepts rather than overwhelm students with the syntactic, semantic and API minutiae of a particular language.

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The teaching and assessment of introductory programming involves writing code that solves a problem described by text. Previous research found that OpenAI's Codex, a natural language machine learning model trained on billions of lines of code, performs ...

Over the years, several systematic literature reviews have been published reporting advances in tools and techniques for automated assessment in Computer Science. However, there is not yet a major bibliometric study that examines the relationships ...

Quantum computing harnesses quantum laws of nature to enable new types of algorithms, not feasible on traditional computers, that may lead to breakthroughs in crucial areas like materials science and chemistry. There is a rapidly growing demand for a ...

We present FGPE AuthorKit, a tool to author programming exercises featuring gamification elements that provide additional motivation for the students to intensify their learning effort. The tool allows the (1) creation of exercises and their associated ...

Learning to program can be challenging. Many instructors use drill-and-practice strategies to help students develop basic programming techniques and improve their confidence. Online systems that provide short programming exercises with immediate, ...

In programming education, instructors often supplement lectures with active learning experiences by offering programming lab sessions where learners themselves practice writing code. However, widely accessed instructional programming screencasts are not ...

In introductory programming courses, proficiency is typically achieved through substantial practice in the form of relatively small assignments and quizzes. Unfortunately, creating programming assignments and quizzes is both, time-consuming and error-...

The increasing number of students in computer science courses leads to high efforts in manual assessment of exercises. Existing assessment systems are not designed for exercises with immediate feedback in large classes. In this paper, we present an ...

Web-based programming exercises are a useful way for students to practice and master essential concepts and techniques presented in introductory programming courses. Although these systems are used fairly widely, we have a limited understanding of how ...

When teaching programming or hardware design, it is pedagogically valuable for students to generate examples of functions, circuits, or system designs. Teachers can be overwhelmed by these types of student submissions when running large residential or ...

In MOOCs, a single programming exercise may produce thousands of solutions from learners. Understanding solution variation is important for providing appropriate feedback to students at scale. The wide variation among these solutions can be a source of ...

Although interactive e-learning environments are increasingly used in university courses, traditional types of examination still dominate the way how students are assessed for grades. In this paper, we examined how student data from online interactive ...

Rudimentary programming skills are essential to developing fundamental proficiency in computer science. However, learning programming techniques can be challenging and frustrating for many students. CodeWorkout is an online learning environment that ...

This paper presents a tool called Petcha that acts as an automated Teaching Assistant in computer programming courses. The ultimate objective of Petcha is to increase the number of programming exercises effectively solved by students. Petcha meets this ...

Because of the web, JavaScript (JS) is one of the most popular programming languages today. Despite the importance, JS is rarely in the core of programming courses. Although JS might not be in the core, it has still a role in many courses. In this paper ...

We present the TSW system (TestSystem Web), a web-based environment currently developed at the Rome 1 University, for the delivery of C programming exercises and their automatic correction.

The core of the correction system automatically tests the ...