A Programming Practice System with Function of Grasping Progress of Students' Program Writing and Its Experimental Use

In programming practices, some students give up making programs or do anything except making programs. It would appear that such students cannot figure out the details of assignments or do not know how to construct programs for the assignments. The teachers and teaching assistants should advise such students timely and quickly. However, they cannot do so, because too many students participate to programming practices. The authors propose a programming practice system. Using this system, teachers and teaching assistants can grasp progresses of students’ program writing. The system consists of a Web page for each student containing a programming editor and two Web pages for teachers and teaching assistants containing progresses of students’ programs writing. The Web page for each student automatically and periodically sends his/her program to the server of the system. The Web pages for teachers and teaching assistants receive progresses of students’ program writing from the server. The effectiveness of the system is shown by the experimental use. The authors have used the system in our programming practices. As the result, using the system, teachers and teaching assistants become to provide necessary advices students timely and quickly