Testing Scheme programming assignments automatically

Abstract In distance learning the lack of direct communication between teachers and learners makes it difficult to provide direct assistance to students while they are solving their homework tasks. We address this problem particularly for programming tasks and describe a system for automatically analyzing students’ homework tasks, and providing understandable feedback. Our approach is adapted to the special situation in distance learning and is integrated into the virtual university approach at the University of Hagen. It consists of a general framework and instances for individual programming languages. For these instances, one example is presented for the programming language Scheme.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: SFP
• Authors: Manfred Widera
• Keywords: Distance Learning, Homework Tasks, Programming Language, Programming Languages, SFP 2003