A Proposal of Statement Fill-in-Blank Problem in Java Programming Learning Assistant System

Nobuya Ishihara; Nobuo Funabiki

doi:10.1109/IIAI-AAI.2015.192

A Proposal of Statement Fill-in-Blank Problem in Java Programming Learning Assistant System

Nobuya Ishihara, Nobuo Funabiki

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Abstract

As a reliable, portable, and practical programming language, Java has been educated in many universities and professional schools. To assist Java educations, we have developed a Web-based Java Programming Learning Assistant System (JPLAS). JPLAS provides the element fill-in-blank problem and the code writing problem. The former problem is designed for novice students to study the grammar and writing style of Java by filling correct words to the blanks in a given Java code that are automatically marked by checking coincidences with correct ones. The latter problem is for students to study writing Java codes for specifications described in natural language that are automatically verified using the test-driven development (TDD) method. Unfortunately, the transition between two problems is not smooth due to the difference in difficulties. In this paper, we propose the statement fill-in-blank problem in JPLAS to fill the gap by asking students to write one whole statement in a code where the correctness is verified by the TDD method. The blank statement is selected by generating the Program Dependence Graph (PDG) of the code and finding the statement that has the largest dependence with other ones. We verify the effectiveness of our proposal through applications to the Java programming course in our department.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2015 IIAI 4th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics, IIAI-AAI 2015
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	247-252
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781479999583
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IIAI-AAI.2015.192
Publication status	Published - Jan 6 2016
Event	4th IIAI International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics, IIAI-AAI 2015 - Okayama, Japan Duration: Jul 12 2015 → Jul 16 2015

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Other	4th IIAI International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics, IIAI-AAI 2015
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Okayama
Period	7/12/15 → 7/16/15

Keywords

Java programming education
JPLAS
program dependence graph
statement
test-driven development method

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Information Systems
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Science Applications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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A Proposal of Statement Fill-in-Blank Problem in Java Programming Learning Assistant System. / Ishihara, Nobuya ; Funabiki, Nobuo.

Proceedings - 2015 IIAI 4th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics, IIAI-AAI 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. p. 247-252 7373909.

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Ishihara, N & Funabiki, N 2016, A Proposal of Statement Fill-in-Blank Problem in Java Programming Learning Assistant System. in Proceedings - 2015 IIAI 4th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics, IIAI-AAI 2015., 7373909, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 247-252, 4th IIAI International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics, IIAI-AAI 2015, Okayama, Japan, 7/12/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/IIAI-AAI.2015.192

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