AP-coach: Formative feedback generation for learning introductory programming concepts

• Main Authors: TA, Nguyen Binh Duong, SHAR, Lwin Khin, SHANKARARAMAN, Venky
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: learning programming; formative feedback; machine translation; code similarity.; Programming Languages and Compilers; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7622; https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00060
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this work, we aim to improve code writing skill in Python-based introductory programming courses for first-year university students. In such courses, students as novice programmers would benefit from personalised and formative feedback to: 1) quickly identify issues in their computational thinkin...