TY - GEN
T1 - A Code Completion Problem in C Programming Learning Assistant System
AU - Sandi Kyaw, Htoo Htoo
AU - Htet, Ei Ei
AU - Funabiki, Nobuo
AU - Kuribayashi, Minoru
AU - Myint, Thandar
AU - Tar, Phyu Phyu
AU - Min, Nandar Win
AU - Thant, Hnin Aye
AU - Wai, Phyu Hnin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/3/27
Y1 - 2021/3/27
N2 - C programming has been the fundamental subject to a lot of university students for studying programming languages, algorithms, and computer architecture. Currently, we are developing C programming learning assistant system (CPLAS) for its self-study by extending our works of JPLAS for Java programming. JPLAS provides the code completion problem (CCP) to offer practical programming exercises. A CCP instance asks the completion of the given source code by filling in the missing elements. The correctness of the answer is marked through string matching by comparing each answer statement with the correct one. In this paper, we present the CCP by extending our works of the element fill-in-blank problem (EFP) in CPLAS. For evaluations, we generated 10 CCP instances and assigned them to 54 undergraduate students in Myanmar and Japan. Their solution results show that the CCP instances are generally suitable for C programming study by novice students, but those on pointer need improvements for better solutions.
AB - C programming has been the fundamental subject to a lot of university students for studying programming languages, algorithms, and computer architecture. Currently, we are developing C programming learning assistant system (CPLAS) for its self-study by extending our works of JPLAS for Java programming. JPLAS provides the code completion problem (CCP) to offer practical programming exercises. A CCP instance asks the completion of the given source code by filling in the missing elements. The correctness of the answer is marked through string matching by comparing each answer statement with the correct one. In this paper, we present the CCP by extending our works of the element fill-in-blank problem (EFP) in CPLAS. For evaluations, we generated 10 CCP instances and assigned them to 54 undergraduate students in Myanmar and Japan. Their solution results show that the CCP instances are generally suitable for C programming study by novice students, but those on pointer need improvements for better solutions.
KW - C programming
KW - CPLAS
KW - blank element selection algorithm
KW - code completion problem
KW - missing elements
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U2 - 10.1109/ICIET51873.2021.9419621
DO - 10.1109/ICIET51873.2021.9419621
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85106443780
T3 - 2021 9th International Conference on Information and Education Technology, ICIET 2021
SP - 34
EP - 40
BT - 2021 9th International Conference on Information and Education Technology, ICIET 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 9th International Conference on Information and Education Technology, ICIET 2021
Y2 - 27 March 2021 through 29 March 2021
ER -