Chris Douce wrote:

Hi,

you might have a look at the "Java Intelligent Tutoring System". Here is
a paper describing the system:
http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~franek/submit/syfra1.pdf

Regards,
Simon

Hi,

This is a two part question that is loosely related to the previous thread:

Lets say I have a class of students performing a group of simple progamming 
assignments in Java (for sake of argument).  By assignments I'm thinking of exercises 
that performs simple temperature conversion, calculate average rainfall, calculates a 
factorial, or a set of classes to exhibit a particular behaviour through published 
methods.

Does anybody know of any papers that try to address the problem of automated (by 
computer) validation/checking of student programs, potentially providing feedback 
regarding student assignments?  I appreciate that a lot of checking and validation is 
performed by a compiler (and the interesting error messages that are created), and 
that code can be automatically tested through a mechanism like JUnit, providing they 
are integrated into the software that is to be tested (and written properly)...  Do 
you know whether anybody has investigated or implemented a more 'student friendly' 
mechanism for automated checking/validation of submitted programs which could be 
related to particular assignments or programming tasks?

Also, if we have a sample program, does anyone know of a tutoring system that may 
assist students through the automatic generation of natural language questions derived 
from a submitted program text?  I appreciate that most of the time a compiler 
facilitates the generation of these questions, through user interpretation...

All references and comments greatfully appreciated,

Many thanks.

Chris


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