The overall goal of this design science research project is to design and evaluate a
chatbotbased learning system that is able to support novice programmers to learn to write …

Feedback is important for learning, however, manual feedback provisioning is time and
resource consuming. For programming education, various systems have been developed to …

Auto-gradable hands-on programming exercises are a key element for scalable
programming courses. A variety of auto-graders already exist, however, creating suitable …

Automated assessment has been shown to greatly simplify the process of assessing
students' programs. However, manual assessment still offers benefits to both students and …

The use of autograding to assess programming students may lead to unfairness if an
autograder is incorrectly configured. Mutation analysis offers a potential solution to this …

Learning a programming language requires learners to write code themselves, execute their
programs interactively, and receive feedback about the correctness of their code. Many …

In university courses with hundreds of students, instructors cannot interact with each student
individually. This leads to the problem that students engage less or not at all in the learning …

Learners interested in acquiring fundamental programming skills may choose from a variety
of different offers, including Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Usually, these courses …

In the context of programming education, so-called auto-graders allow learners to receive
automated feedback on their submissions. Because assessing learners' code typically …

Programming courses offered by openHPI, the European MOOC platform of the Hasso
Plattner Institute, feature hands-on programming exercises to support learners in practicing …