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Design of a Knowledge Base to Teach Programming

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2012)

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Programming is a subject that many beginning students find difficult. This paper describes a knowledge base designed for the purpose of analyzing programs written in the PHP web development language. The aim is to use this knowledge base in an Intelligent Tutoring System that will provide effective feedback to students. The main focus of this research is that a programming exercise can have many correct solutions. This paper presents an overview of how the proposed knowledge base can be utilized to accept different solutions to a given exercise.

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

    Dinesha Weragama & Jim Reye

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  1. University of Montpellier & CNRS LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, 34095, Montpellier, France

    Stefano A. Cerri

  2. NASA and Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Human Centered Computing - Intelligent Systems Division, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    William J. Clancey

  3. Department of Applied Informatics and Multimedia, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, School of Applied Technology, Stavromenos, P.O.Box 1939, 71004, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Giorgos Papadourakis

  4. Neoanalysis Ltd., Marni 56, 10437, Athens, Greece

    Kitty Panourgia

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Weragama, D., Reye, J. (2012). Design of a Knowledge Base to Teach Programming. In: Cerri, S.A., Clancey, W.J., Papadourakis, G., Panourgia, K. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7315. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30950-2_83

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