Domain Specific Debugging Aids for Novice Programmers
Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Computer Aided Instruction. Pages 964-968.
Abstract
We have been developing a debugging aid tailored to novice programmers learning to use a simple assertional database language. Based in part on existing programmer's apprentice and debugging projects, our system makes several novel contributions: it is oriented towards a large audience (several hundred per year) of computernaive users; the system deals with argument passing, recursion, and side-effects. Symbolic evaluation of the user's code produces an effect-description which is compared with an idealised effect-description (derived from a library plan). The library plan uses domainspecific knowledge to allow the user a great deal of freedom to invent alternate approaches to the programming task at hand. Based on effectdescription mismatches, a variety of hints for correcting the code can be given to the student.
@inproceedings{ijcai1981p184,
title = {Domain Specific Debugging Aids for Novice Programmers},
author = {Laubsch, Joachim H. and Eisenstadt, Marc},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-81}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Roger C. Schank},
pages = {964--968},
year = {1981},
month = {8},
note = {Computer Aided Instruction},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/184},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - Domain Specific Debugging Aids for Novice Programmers AU - Laubsch, Joachim H. AU - Eisenstadt, Marc T2 - Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-81 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 1981 SP - 964 EP - 968 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/184 ER -Copied
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