As programming is the basis of many CS courses, meaningful activities in supporting students on their journey towards being better programmers is a matter of utmost importance.Programming is not only about learning simple syntax constructs and their applications, but about honing practical problem-solving skills in meaningful contexts. In this article, we describe our current work on an automated assessment system called Test My Code (TMC), which is one of the feedback and support mechanisms that we use in our programming courses. TMC is an assessment service that (1) enables building of scaffolding into programming exercises;(2) retrieves and updates tasks into the students' programming environment as students work on them, and (3) causes no additional overhead to students' programming process. Instructors benefit from TMC as it can be used to perform code reviews, and collect and send feedback even on fully on-line courses.
We describe an automated assessment system called Test My Code (TMC) that is designed to support instructors' and students' work in programming courses. From the students' point of view, TMC is a transparent assessment service that is integrated to an industry-standard programming environment. TMC is used to provide scaffolding of students' learning during the working process, and to retrieve and update exercises as the students work on them, without causing additional overhead to the learning process. From the instructors' perspective, TMC makes collaborative crafting of exercises easier, supports building exercises with smaller goals that combine into bigger programs, gathers snapshots from students' programming process, collects feedback from students, and has the capability to export course submission data into external systems. TMC has been used in massive open online courses on programming as well as in courses on web-development with hundreds of students.
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