Cellular Automata as basis for programming exercises in a MOOC on Test Driven Development

2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) Pub Date : 2016-12-01 DOI:10.1109/TALE.2016.7851824

T. Staubitz, Ralf Teusner, C. Meinel, N. Prakash

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Programming tasks are an important part of teaching computer programming as they foster students to develop essential programming skills and techniques through practice. The design of educational problems plays a crucial role in the extent to which the experiential knowledge is imparted to the learner both in terms of quality and quantity. Badly designed tasks have been known to put-off students from practicing programming. Hence, there is a need for carefully designed problems. Cellular Automata programming lends itself as a very suitable candidate among problems designed for programming practice. In this paper we describe how various types of problems can be designed using concepts from Cellular Automata and discuss the features which make them good practice problems with regard to instructional pedagogy. We also present a case study on a Cellular Automata programming exercise used in a MOOC on Test Driven Development using JUnit, and discuss the automated evaluation of code submissions and the feedback about the reception of this exercise by participants in this course.

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元胞自动机作为测试驱动开发MOOC编程练习的基础

编程任务是计算机编程教学的重要组成部分，因为它们通过实践培养学生发展基本的编程技能和技术。教育问题的设计在经验知识传授给学习者的质量和数量上都起着至关重要的作用。众所周知，设计糟糕的任务会阻碍学生练习编程。因此，需要仔细设计问题。元胞自动机编程是为编程实践设计的一个非常合适的问题。在本文中，我们描述了如何使用元胞自动机的概念来设计各种类型的问题，并讨论了使它们成为教学教学中良好实践问题的特征。我们还介绍了一个关于使用JUnit进行测试驱动开发的MOOC中使用的元胞自动机编程练习的案例研究，并讨论了代码提交的自动评估以及本课程参与者接受此练习的反馈。

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