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2016

A Proposal of Three Extensions in Blank Element Selection Algorithm for Java Programming Learning Assistant System

2016 IEEE 5TH GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
  • Khin Khin Zaw
  • ,
  • Nobuo Funabiki
  • ,
  • Minoru Kuribayashi

First page
1
Last page
3
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (international conference proceedings)
DOI
10.1109/GCCE.2016.7800312
Publisher
IEEE

To assist Java programming educations, we have developed a Web-based Java Programming Learning Assistant System (JPLAS). JPLAS provides fill-in-blank problems to let students study Java grammar and basic programming skills by filling the blanked elements in a given Java code. To generate the feasible problems, we have proposed a blank element selection algorithm using the constraint graph to select as many blanks as possible such that they have grammatically correct and unique answers. In this paper, to further increase the number of blanks and control the difficulty of the generated problem, we extend this algorithm by 1) adding operators in conditional expressions for blank candidates, 2) improving the edge generation method in the constraint graph to increase the number of blanks, and 3) introducing two parameters to change the frequency of selecting blanks. To verify the effectiveness, we apply the extended algorithm to 55 Java codes for fundamental data structure or algorithms, and confirm that these extensions can increase the number of blanks and change the problem difficulty.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/GCCE.2016.7800312
DBLP
https://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/conf/gcce/ZawFK16
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000392288200002&DestApp=WOS_CPL
URL
http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/gcce/gcce2016.html#conf/gcce/ZawFK16
ID information
  • DOI : 10.1109/GCCE.2016.7800312
  • DBLP ID : conf/gcce/ZawFK16
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000392288200002

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