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Making Students Read and Review Code - ITiCSE 2000
by Andreas Zeller

ITiCSE '00: Proceedings of the 5th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, Pages 89-92, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, July 2000.

ISBN: 1581132077

Digital Library via DOI: 10.1145/343048.343090 - Local copy: Download as PDF file.

See also

More information is available at http://www.infosun.fmi.uni-passau.de/st/praktomat/.

Abstract

The Praktomat system allows students to read, review, and assess each other's programs in order to improve quality and style. After a successful submission, the student can retrieve and review a program of some fellow student selected by Praktomat. After the review is complete, the student may obtain reviews and re-submit improved versions of his program. The reviewing process is independent of grading; the risk of plagiarism is narrowed by personalized assignments and automatic testing of submitted programs. In a survey, more than two thirds of the students affirmed that reading each other's programs improved their program quality; this is also confirmed by statistical data.

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BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{zeller-iticse-2000,
    title = "Making Students Read and Review Code",
    author = "Andreas Zeller",
    year = "2000",
    month = jul,
    address = "New York, NY, USA",
    booktitle = "ITiCSE '00: Proceedings of the 5th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSE conference on Innovation and technology
in computer science education",
    location = "Helsinki, Finland}",
    pages = "89--92",
    publisher = "ACM Press",
    ISBN = "1581132077",
    doi = "10.1145/343048.343090",
}

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