Teaching and learning programming and software engineering via interactive gaming

Tillmann, Nikolai; Halleux, Jonathan de; Xie, Tao; Gulwani, Sumit; Bishop, Judith

doi:10.1109/icse.2013.6606662

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“…A feedback is an important and necessary part in education and educational games (Azmi et al, 2015;Cuba-Ricardo et al, 2015;Tillmann et al, 2013). Good feedback can be implemented by providing guidance to players within the game so that they do not feel "lost" (Becker, 2008) or by avoiding negative consequences in the game.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A more detailed discussion is presented about seven courses on gamification intervention after which pass rates increased by 10.8% on average. Tillmann et al (2013) deals with an alternative platform called "Pex4Fun". On this platform, grading of traditional MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) assignments has been changed to an automated grading assignment system based on the symbolic execution, designed for students and teachers.…”

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Learning Programming through Games and Contests: Overview, Characterisation and Discussion

Combéfis¹,

Beresnevičius²,

Dagienė³

2016

IOI

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Abstract. Learning of programming and, more generally, of computer science concepts is now reaching the public at large. It is not only reserved for people who studied informatics (computer science) or programming anymore. Teaching programming to schoolchildren presents many challenges: the big diversity in ability and aptitude levels; the big amount of different tools; the time-consuming nature of programming; and of course the difficulty to motivate schoolchildren to keep them busy with hard work. There are various platforms that offer to learn coding and programming, in particular game-based platforms, which are more and more popular. These latter exploits of the gamification process focused on increase in motivation and engagement of the learners. This paper reviews the main kinds of online platforms to learn programming and more general computer science concepts, and illustrates the review with concrete platforms examples.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning Programming through Games and Contests: Overview, Characterisation and Discussion

Combéfis¹,

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Dagienė³

2016

IOI

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“…So, needs additional validation for an external educational game. Teaching and Learning Programming and Software Engineering via Interactive Gaming [8] The platform needs to be applied to different races and ages, and not limited to universities and easy way commensurate with the level of education, who taught him Understanding gamification mechanisms for software development [9] The study does not mention the detailed of the game rules and effect of specific aspects of gamification. Turning Real-World Software Development into a Game [10] Results of the study are derived from historical data to evaluate the results of a previous study without practical application for the approach CutIT: A Game for Teaching Process Improvement in Software Engineering [11] The limitation in this game is the difficulty in disciplining the proposed time in the stages of the game when a large number of students in the class will take a longer time in the application Quick Quiz: A Gamified Approach for Enhancing Learning [12] The limitation of this approach is the activity that used in a short period of time and the result is self-reported.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Tillmann et al [8] introduced a new platform to address the issue of using traditional ways for assignment grading of the students do not give in time and interactive feedback to them. The platform called Pex4Fun is an interactive gaming based on learning and teaching platform for programming languages like C#, F# and visual basic.…”

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Proposal to Teach Software Development Using Gaming Technique

Albilali¹,

Qureshi

2016

IJMECS

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Abstract-The world today has witnessed the evolution imposes on researchers in the field of education to review the methods and strategies of teaching, since the teaching and learning system is not a collection of information and knowledge that stuffed in mind. It is a development of cognitive performance and modes of thinking in addition to the use of innovative ways and methods to help the student to adapt to its environment and to solve the problems that he/ she faces to make learning meaningful. One of the recent trends is the use of educational teaching games. Games increase the motivation of the learner and ensure the interaction with educational material which, in turn, offers fun and enjoyable manner in order to achieve the desired objectives. This paper attempts to address the need to utilize gaming to improve learning in active ways and to raise level of the learning process in an interactive environment for the students and the teachers. To evaluate the proposed solution, this paper used survey research methodology and the results are highly encouraging by the professionals working in academia.

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“…AutoGrader [28] requires students to program to a public interface, allowing whitebox testing at the cost of restricting the form of the code submissions. Pex4Fun [65] uses automated test case generation to guide student submissions and to scale to MOOC capacities. This approach requires students to demonstrate advanced debugging skills.…”

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Fast test suite-driven model-based fault localisation with application to pinpointing defects in student programs

2017

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Fault localisation, i.e. the identification of program locations that cause errors, takes significant effort and cost. We describe a fast model-based fault localisation algorithm that, given a test suite, uses symbolic execution methods to fully automatically identify a small subset of program locations where genuine program repairs exist. Our algorithm iterates over failing test cases and collects locations where an assignment change can repair exhibited faulty behaviour. Our main contribution is an improved search through the test suite, reducing the effort for the symbolic execution of the models and leading to speed-ups of more than two orders of magnitude over the previously published implementation by Griesmayer et al. We implemented our algorithm for C programs, using the KLEE symbolic execution engine, and demonstrate its effectiveness on the Siemens TCAS variants. Its performance is in line with recent alternative model-based fault localisation techniques, but narrows the location set further without rejecting any genuine repair locations where faults can be fixed by changing a single assignment. We also show how our tool can be used in an educational context to improve self-guided learning and accelerate assessment. We apply our algorithm to a large selection of actual student coursework submissions, providCommunicated by Prof. Alfonso Pierantonio, Jasmin Blanchette, Francis Bordeleau, Nikolai Kosmatov, Gabi Taentzer, and Manuel Wimmer. We show this using small test suites, already provided in the coursework management system, and on expanded test suites, demonstrating the scalability of our approach. We also show compliance with test suites does not reliably grade a class of "almost-correct" submissions, which our tool highlights, as being close to the correct answer. Finally, we show an extension to our tool that extends our fast localisation results to a selection of student submissions that contain two faults.

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Teaching and learning programming and software engineering via interactive gaming

Cited by 75 publications

References 23 publications

Learning Programming through Games and Contests: Overview, Characterisation and Discussion

Learning Programming through Games and Contests: Overview, Characterisation and Discussion

Proposal to Teach Software Development Using Gaming Technique

Fast test suite-driven model-based fault localisation with application to pinpointing defects in student programs

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