Design of a knowledge base to teach programming

Authors:
Dinesha Weragama;Jim Reye
Affiliations:
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia;School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Venue:
ITS'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Year:
2012

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PROUST: Knowledge-Based Program Understanding

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Information Modeling and Relational Databases

Information Modeling and Relational Databases

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Abstract

Programming is a subject that many beginning students find difficult. This paper describes a knowledge base designed for the purpose of analyzing programs written in the PHP web development language. The aim is to use this knowledge base in an Intelligent Tutoring System that will provide effective feedback to students. The main focus of this research is that a programming exercise can have many correct solutions. This paper presents an overview of how the proposed knowledge base can be utilized to accept different solutions to a given exercise.