An Online Integrated Development Environment for Automated Programming Assessment Systems
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| author | Frankford, Eduard Crazzolara, Daniel Vierhauser, Michael Meissner, Niklas Krusche, Stephan Breu, Ruth |
| author_facet | Frankford, Eduard Crazzolara, Daniel Vierhauser, Michael Meissner, Niklas Krusche, Stephan Breu, Ruth |
| contents | The increasing demand for programmers has led to a surge in participants in programming courses, making it increasingly challenging for instructors to assess student code manually. As a result, automated programming assessment systems (APASs) have been developed to streamline this process. These APASs support lecturers by managing and evaluating student programming exercises at scale. However, these tools often do not provide feature-rich online editors compared to their traditional integrated development environments (IDEs) counterparts. This absence of key features, such as syntax highlighting and autocompletion, can negatively impact the learning experience, as these tools are crucial for effective coding practice. To address this gap, this research contributes to the field of programming education by extracting and defining requirements for an online IDE in an educational context and presenting a prototypical implementation of an open-source solution for a scalable and secure online IDE. The usability of the new online IDE was assessed using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), gathering feedback from 27 first-year students through a structured survey. In addition to these qualitative insights, quantitative measures such as memory (RAM) usage were evaluated to determine the efficiency and scalability of the tool under varying usage conditions. |
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| spellingShingle | An Online Integrated Development Environment for Automated Programming Assessment Systems Frankford, Eduard Crazzolara, Daniel Vierhauser, Michael Meissner, Niklas Krusche, Stephan Breu, Ruth Software Engineering The increasing demand for programmers has led to a surge in participants in programming courses, making it increasingly challenging for instructors to assess student code manually. As a result, automated programming assessment systems (APASs) have been developed to streamline this process. These APASs support lecturers by managing and evaluating student programming exercises at scale. However, these tools often do not provide feature-rich online editors compared to their traditional integrated development environments (IDEs) counterparts. This absence of key features, such as syntax highlighting and autocompletion, can negatively impact the learning experience, as these tools are crucial for effective coding practice. To address this gap, this research contributes to the field of programming education by extracting and defining requirements for an online IDE in an educational context and presenting a prototypical implementation of an open-source solution for a scalable and secure online IDE. The usability of the new online IDE was assessed using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), gathering feedback from 27 first-year students through a structured survey. In addition to these qualitative insights, quantitative measures such as memory (RAM) usage were evaluated to determine the efficiency and scalability of the tool under varying usage conditions. |
| title | An Online Integrated Development Environment for Automated Programming Assessment Systems |
| topic | Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13127 |