This paper describes an Interactive ProgrammingAssistance tool (iPAT) which is designed to assist students in solving introductory programming problems and help instructors in conducting programming lab sessions effectively. In a large computer lab setting with over 30 students, communication can be very limited between the students and the lab instructors.To address this problem iPAT was developed. It allows students to undertake programming exercises and receive interactive guidance in getting their programs to compile and run. This is the only tool developed to assist students and instructors in solving their practical lab session problems, which comes with features such as error handling, remote access, handling PC inventory and a solution archive to solve common errors in C# programming.To ensure the accuracy of the system, it was deployed in a LAN network of twenty computers which gave the idea of virtual lab environment. Then eighteen undergraduates were asked to rank the usefulness of the system based on a five point scale. According to the provided rankings an average rating of 4.3 was obtained.Index Terms -Error handling,introductory program ming, programming labs, online learning.
Inappropriate self-medication usage has become a significant public health problem in all countries.This study is aimed to determine the perceived self-medication practices (SMP), associated factors and awareness on contraindications related to self-medication among undergraduates in a non-state university using a random sample of 138 undergraduates of the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences (FOHS) of Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT). The required data were acquired from a structured questionnaire consists of 31 questions in four parts. It was found that only 87% of the respondents had practiced self-medication in the past three months. Covid-19 restrictions (48.4%) and believing consultation for mild illnesses is unnecessary (44.0%) were the major reasons for SMP.The gender, age category, residing province, living with whom, study year, nationality, and household monthly income are not significantly associated with status of SMP, but the presence of chronic illnesses was significantly associated. The percentage of having SMP for those having chronic illness (87.9%) is significantly higher (p<0.05) than that for no chronic illness (78.5%). There was a significant association between the type of medicine use for SM and the levels of SM (high vs low). Also, the attitudes towards the statement "SM is effective similarly, to medicines prescribed by a doctor" is significantly associated (p=0.07) with the levels of SMP. Headache (80.7%) and common cold (43.0%) were the major health conditions for SMP, while painkillers (83.2%) and vitamins and minerals (47.8%) were the most used types of medicines. Conducting educational programs in pharmaceutical aspects is recommended to improve healthy medicinal compliance among the undergraduate population in Sri Lanka.
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