CAP: an automated self-assessment tool to check Pascal programs for syntax, logic and style errors

Authors:
Tom Schorsch
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, United States Air Force Academy, CO
Venue:
SIGCSE '95 Proceedings of the twenty-sixth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1995

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Abstract

Student programmers have difficulty finding and fixing syntax, logic and style errors in their programs. The Code Analyzer for Pascal (CAP) analyzes programs that use a subset of the Pascal language and provides user-friendly feedback on the errors that it finds. This paper describes CAP and reports its use in teaching introductory programming at the United States Air Force Academy.