Steven C. Shaffer
Abstract
An online programming tutoring and assessment system is described, and the results of a preliminary study are presented. Ten students in an introductory C++ programming course used the system; both qualitative and quantitative data were collected and suggest that a future large-scale implementation will yield beneficial results
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