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The PrimeGame Revolutions: A cloud-based collaborative environment for teaching introductory programming

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Johannes Tandler,

Manfred MeyerAuthors Info & Claims

ASWEC ' 15 Vol. II: Proceedings of the ASWEC 2015 24th Australasian Software Engineering Conference

Pages 8 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/2811681.2811683

Published: 28 September 2015 Publication History

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The PrimeGame is an established mathematical programming game that has been used successfully in undergraduate computer science teaching since 2003. To meet the increasing demand for innovative programming tools in undergraduate tertiary and secondary education, we have created SoGaCo, a novel platform to deliver the PrimeGame and similar games to a wide audience via standard web browsers. SoGaCo is designed to have a very low total cost of ownership. This is achieved by enabling teachers to provision a customised collaborative development environment on commodity cloud computing infrastructure. Amongst the unique features of the platform are its social networking features and support for polyglot programming.

In this paper, we describe the requirements for this system, its design and implementation. We focus on how the scalability and security challenges of an open web-based development environment are addressed. This includes a discussion of the sandboxing and verification techniques we have developed in order to safeguard server-side code execution on the Java Virtual Machine.

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Sui LDietrich JHeinrich EMeyer MClear ACuadros-Vargas ECarter JTupac Y(2016)A Web-Based Environment for Introductory Programming based on a Bi-Directional Layered Notional MachineProceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education10.1145/2899415.2925487(364-364)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2899415.2925487

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ASWEC ' 15 Vol. II: Proceedings of the ASWEC 2015 24th Australasian Software Engineering Conference

September 2015

171 pages

ISBN:9781450337960

DOI:10.1145/2811681

Editors:
Fei-Ching (Diana) Kuo
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
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Stuart Marshall
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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Haifeng Shen
Flinders University, Australia
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Markus Stumptner
University of South Australia, Australia
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M. Ali Babar
University of Adelaide, Australia

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Paiva JLeal JQueirós R(2020)Fostering Programming Practice through GamesInformation10.3390/info1111049811:11(498)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2020
https://doi.org/10.3390/info11110498
Sui LDietrich JHeinrich EMeyer MClear ACuadros-Vargas ECarter JTupac Y(2016)A Web-Based Environment for Introductory Programming based on a Bi-Directional Layered Notional MachineProceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education10.1145/2899415.2925487(364-364)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2899415.2925487

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