article

PL-detective: experiences and results

Authors:

Amer Diwan,

Michele H. Jackson,

William M. Waite,

Jacob DickersonAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 37, Issue 1

Pages 221 - 225

https://doi.org/10.1145/1047124.1047423

Published: 23 February 2005 Publication History

Get Access

Abstract

Last year we described the PL-Detective, a system for building exercises and demonstrations in a programming languages course. One of the main goals of the PL-Detective was to provide an experimental environment with which students could interact in order to discover the information that they needed to complete the exercise. In this paper we evaluate the PL-Detective with respect to this goal. We present data from a class of 29 groups of two or three students that used the PL-Detective for 11 exercises. Our data shows that students are both effective and efficient at getting information from the PL-Detective.

References

[1]

Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, and Jill Mattuck Tarule. Women's way of knowing. Basic Books, 1997.

Google Scholar

[2]

Amer Diwan, William M. Waite, and Michele H. Jackson. PL-detective: A system for teaching programming language concepts. In 35rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Norfolk, VA, March 2004.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[3]

J. P. Folger, D. E. Hewes, and M. S. Poole. Coding social interaction. Progress in communication sciences, 4:115--161, 1984.

Google Scholar

[4]

J. P. Folger and M. S. Poole. Relational coding schemes: The question of validity. Communication yearbook 5, pages 235--247, 1981.

Google Scholar

[5]

W. G. Perry. Forms of intellectual and ethical development in the college years. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.

Google Scholar

Index Terms

PL-detective: experiences and results
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages

Recommendations

PL-detective: experiences and results
SIGCSE '05: Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Last year we described the PL-Detective, a system for building exercises and demonstrations in a programming languages course. One of the main goals of the PL-Detective was to provide an experimental environment with which students could interact in ...
PL-detective: A system for teaching programming language concepts

The educational literature recognizes that people go through a number of stages in their intellectual development. During the first stage, called received knowledge or dualism, people expect knowledge to be handed to them by authority figures (thus “...
PL-detective: a system for teaching programming language concepts
SIGCSE '04: Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

The educational literature recognizes that people go through a number of stages in their intellectual development. During the first stage, called received knowledge or dualism, people expect knowledge to be handed to them by authority figures (thus "...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 37, Issue 1

2005

562 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1047124

Issue’s Table of Contents

SIGCSE '05: Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
February 2005
610 pages
ISBN:1581139977
DOI:10.1145/1047344
Conference Chairs:
Wanda Dann
Ithaca College
,
Tom Naps
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
,
Program Chairs:
Paul Tymann
Rochester Institute of Technology
,
Doug Baldwin
SUNY Geneseo

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 23 February 2005

Published in SIGCSE Volume 37, Issue 1

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Article

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

1
Total Citations
View Citations
199
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)1
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 07 Mar 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Abstract

References

Index Terms

Recommendations