A development environment for cooperative programming

This paper proposes an environment for the learning of program languages in a web environment. We consider that the student has to do exercises when he is learning a programming language; these tasks cause extra difficulties in conventional web environments. To remove these difficulties we propose an application that we have called DWE [9] (Development Web Environment); the core of this application is a language compiler integrated in the web application. Along with this compiler there are other modules to help the student while he is developing the programs; to obtain this we try to facilitate the communication and collaboration teacher–student and student–student and we try to use the experiences of all the users in a group. We propose a group-based methodology for developing the programming assignments with a CVS system as central point and a help system for the design and programming based in a Wiki system which allows both teacher and students to insert and browse information