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Use of Automatic Code Assessment Tools in the Programming Teaching Process Cardoso, Marílio de Castro, António Vieira Rocha, Álvaro Silva, Emanuel Mendonça, Jorge Teaching programming APROG Moodle VPL Mooshak Automatic assessment The teaching of programming process is essential to prepare students for the development of computer applications and software solutions. During the last decade, a variety of tools facilitating automatic validation of programming code have been developed. In this context, authors start to analyze and studying some tools with this potential and a possible use with pedagogical purposes. For the last three years a study has been carried out related with the implementation of VPL (Virtual Programming Lab) a plug-in developed specifically for Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) on a Java-based programming discipline during the Informatics Engineering degree of the Informatics Engineering Department (DEI) from the School of Engineering of Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ISEP/P.PORTO). This paper will present how VPL was introduced and some results of this experiment before the implementation in the learning process of another tool (Mooshak) as a real-time automatic code evaluation. These tools allow to edit and execute programs, in a large range of languages, and enables automatic assessment and prompt feedback. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Marílio Cardoso and António Vieira de Castro and Álvaro Rocha and Emanuel Silva and Jorge Mendonça 2020 Is Part Of OASIcs, Volume 81, First International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC 2020) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2020.4 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-122913 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2020.4 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode