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CodeSkelGen - A Program Skeleton Generator Queirós, Ricardo Code Generation Programming Languages Annotation Existent computer programming training environments help users to learn programming by solving problems from scratch. Nevertheless, initiating the resolution of a program can be frustrating and demotivating if the student does not know where and how to start. Skeleton programming facilitates a top-down design approach, where a partially functional system with complete high-level structures is available, so the student needs only to progressively complete or update the code to meet the requirements of the problem. This paper presents CodeSkelGen - a program skeleton generator. CodeSkelGen generates skeleton or buggy Java programs from a complete annotated program solution provided by the teacher. The annotations are formally described within an annotation type and processed by an annotation processor. This processor is responsible for a set of actions ranging from the creation of dummy methods to the exchange of operator types included in the source code. The generator tool will be included in a learning environment that aims to assist teachers in the creation of programming exercises and to help students in their resolution. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Ricardo Queirós 2013 Is Part Of OASIcs, Volume 29, 2nd Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (2013) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2013.145 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-40350 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2013.145 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode