BlueFix: Using crowd-sourced feedback to support programming students in error diagnosis and repair

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7558 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 228-239

  Watson, Christopher ^a   Li, Frederick W B ^a   Godwin, Jamie L ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compiler Errors; Crowd Fixes; Feedback; Programming Education

Indexed keywords

CROWD FIXES; DYNAMIC LEVELS; ERROR DIAGNOSIS; FEEDBACK ALGORITHMS; NOVICE PROGRAMMING; ON-LINE TOOLS; PROGRAMMING EDUCATION; SOURCE CODES; STUDENT LEARNING;

E-LEARNING; FEEDBACK; PROGRAM COMPILERS; STUDENTS;

PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS;

EID: 84866045338     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33642-3_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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