JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 15(7): 1472-1485, doi: 10.3217/jucs-015-07-1472
Learning to Program with COALA, a Distributed Computer Assisted Environment
expand article infoFrancisco Jurado‡, Ana I. Molina‡, Miguel A. Redondo§, Manuel Ortega Cantero|, Adam Giemza, Lars Bollen, H. Ulrich Hoppe
‡ University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain§ La Mancha University, Castilla, Spain| Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain¶ Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

Corresponding author: Francisco Jurado ( francisco.jurado@uclm.es )

© Francisco Jurado, Ana Molina, Miguel Redondo, Manuel Ortega Cantero, Adam Giemza, Lars Bollen, H. Hoppe.
This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.
Citation: Jurado F, Molina AI, Redondo MA, Ortega Cantero M, Giemza A, Bollen L, Hoppe HU (2009) Learning to Program with COALA, a Distributed Computer Assisted Environment. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 15(7): 1472-1485. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-015-07-1472
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Abstract
Learning to program is an important subject for students of Computer Science. Mentoring these students is a time-consuming and complex task. In this paper, we present a learning and tutoring environment that integrates task/solution delivery, assessment support and tutor’s annotations, by extending Eclipse to a "Real World Integrated Development Environment". We will present a distributed system that uses Tuple Space architecture to integrate Eclipse with an evaluation module and a hand-writing annotation feature.
Keywords
learning programming, intelligent tutoring system