Analysis Techniques for Feedback-Based Educational Systems for Programming

Over the last three decades, many educational systems for programming have been developed to support learning/teaching programming. In order to help students solve programming problems, many educational systems use the means of meaningful feedback that is resulted through an accurate analysis of student programs. In this paper, I review and classify analysis techniques that are required to analyze errors in a student program. This paper also proposes several research directions.

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