A Code Completion Problem in C Programming Learning Assistant System

2021 9th International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET) Pub Date : 2021-03-27 DOI:10.1109/ICIET51873.2021.9419621

Htoo Htoo Sandi Kyaw, Ei Ei Htet, N. Funabiki, M. Kuribayashi, Thandar Myint, Phyu Phyu Tar, N. Min, Hninn Aye Thant, Phyu Hnin Wai

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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.

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C编程学习辅助系统中的代码补全问题

C编程已经成为许多大学生学习编程语言、算法和计算机体系结构的基础课程。目前，我们正在开发C编程学习辅助系统(CPLAS)，通过扩展我们的Java编程辅助系统的工作来实现它的自学。JPLAS提供了代码完成问题(CCP)来提供实际的编程练习。CCP实例通过填充缺失的元素来要求完成给定的源代码。通过将每个答案语句与正确的语句进行比较，通过字符串匹配来标记答案的正确性。本文通过对CPLAS中元件填空问题(EFP)的扩展，提出了CPLAS中元件填空问题的CCP。为了进行评估，我们生成了10个CCP实例，并将它们分配给缅甸和日本的54名本科生。他们的解算结果表明，CCP实例一般适合初学者学习C编程，但指针上的实例需要改进以获得更好的解。

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