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Serverless automatic assessment of Javascript exercises

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Ville Karavirta,

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ITiCSE '10: Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1822090.1822179

Published: 26 June 2010 Publication History

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Because of the web, JavaScript (JS) is one of the most popular programming languages today. Despite the importance, JS is rarely in the core of programming courses. Although JS might not be in the core, it has still a role in many courses. In this paper we introduce an open source tool to create small, automatically assessed JavaScript programming exercises. Sources of the tool are available online. Automatic assessment is based on unit tests, JSLint and various software metrics. The fact that the assessment happens inside the student's own browser is the novelty of our work. Installation and sandboxing of a server are not required. This makes it easy to add exercises into any web page. The downside is that exercises are for self study purposes since grades submitted from a browser could be tampered with.

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ITiCSE '10: Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

June 2010

344 pages

ISBN:9781605588209

DOI:10.1145/1822090

General Chairs:
Reyyan Ayfer
Bilkent University, Turkey
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John Impagliazzo
Qatar University, Qatar
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Cary Laxer
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA

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Bilkent University: Bilkent University

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Published: 26 June 2010

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