Using CodeBrowser to seek differences between novice programmers

Authors:
Kenny Heinonen;Kasper Hirvikoski;Matti Luukkainen;Arto Vihavainen
Affiliations:
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Venue:
Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
2014

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Abstract

A large body of systems that gather data on students' programming process exists, and with the increase of massive open online courses in programming, the amount of gathered data is growing even at a higher rate. A common issue for data analysis is the lack of common tools for visualizing source code snapshots. We have created a browser-side snapshot analysis tool called CodeBrowser that provides a clean REST API that anyone can integrate their snapshot data into. In this article, we describe CodeBrowser and as an example, discuss how it has been used to seek differences between novice programmers that have passed (n=10) or failed (n=10) an introductory programming course.