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A Teaching Assistant for the C Language (Short Paper)

Authors Rui C. Mendes , José João Almeida

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  • Applied computing → Computer-assisted instruction
  • Software and its engineering → Empirical software validation
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  • Software metrics
  • Documentation extractor
  • Domain specific language
  • Query language
  • Report generation

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Abstract

We introduce a C tutor that can help instructors manage classes with many students learning to program in C. Nowadays, it is easy to evaluate code but it is hard to provide good feedback. We introduce a tool to help instructors provide students with feedback concerning their implementation and documentation for honing their programming skills. This tool is implemented in Python and is available at https://github.com/rcm/C_teaching_assistant.

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Rui C. Mendes and José João Almeida. A Teaching Assistant for the C Language (Short Paper). In Second International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC 2021). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 91, pp. 13:1-13:8, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2021.13

Author Details

Rui C. Mendes
  • Centro Algoritmi, Departamento de Informática, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
José João Almeida
  • Centro Algoritmi, Departamento de Informática, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Funding

This research has been supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the R&D Units Project Scope: UIDB/00319/2020.

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