A Proposal to Assist Students and Teachers in Teaching Programming: The AIIP Environment

• Cledson Calaça Cavalcante Gomes UFAL
• David Henrique de Souza Lima UFAL
• Raphael Pereira Ribeiro UFAL
• Eliana Silva de Almeida UFAL
• Patrick Henrique da Silva Brito UFAL

Abstract

This paper presents AIIP, an intelligent environment for beginners in programming. AIIP is an environment that aims to help students in their programming learning process. AIIP unites in a single environment for teaching programming desired features by the community, such as a practical teaching module, a theoretical teaching module and an assistent able to act according to user behavior, providing appropriated hints and feedbacks and performs calculations in accordance with pre-established metrics to evaluate the student’s solutions. Thus, it is expected that with the combination of these features in one environment, the students could develop skills and reduce their difficults in learning programming.

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