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Agents help students in ProgrammingLand

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Curt Hill,

Vijayakumar Shanmugasundaram,

Martina MitevaAuthors Info & Claims

ITICSE '06: Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 183 - 187

https://doi.org/10.1145/1140124.1140174

Published: 26 June 2006 Publication History

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ProgrammingLand is an online system for delivering content to introductory computer science courses as a substitute for a conventional textbook. Because the system has a large number of exhibits, sometimes students were not finding the material needed. The system was recently enhanced with several agents to direct students to pertinent locations. This paper discusses the capabilities and techniques of these agents.Preliminary data from the use of ProgrammingLand in two different introductory programming classes is discussed. This data suggests that the agents are successful in aiding students, especially those who are struggling.

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https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2007.4418020

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Agents help students in ProgrammingLand
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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ITICSE '06: Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

June 2006

390 pages

ISBN:1595930558

DOI:10.1145/1140124

Conference Chair:
Renzo Davoli
Università di Bologna, Italy
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Program Chairs:
Michael Goldweber
Xavier University
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Paola Salomoni
Università di Bologna, Italy

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 38, Issue 3
September 2006
367 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/1140123
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Carter JWhite SFraser KKurkovsky SMcCreesh CWieck M(2010)ITiCSE 2010 working group report motivating our top studentsProceedings of the 2010 ITiCSE working group reports10.1145/1971681.1971685(29-47)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1971681.1971685
Hill CSlator BVijayakumar Shanmugasundaram (2007)ProgrammingLand: A visualization enhanced hypertextbook2007 37th annual frontiers in education conference - global engineering: knowledge without borders, opportunities without passports10.1109/FIE.2007.4418020(F1H-19-F1H-24)Online publication date: Oct-2007
https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2007.4418020

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