[ACT-R-users] intelligent programming tutors.....

[Chipman, Susan]

I was waiting for someone else to answer this question.  The fact is
that Anderson's group built a tutor under Army support that taught
several different programming languages.  In fact, it was supposed to
work so that one could develop a programming problem in only one of the
languages and have it tutored in any of the others.  Don't know if that
actually worked.  I think the languages were LISP, Prologue and Pascal.
There is also a Pascal Tutor derived from that one that is intended for
use in teaching the high school advanced placement (college equivalent)
programming course.  This may be available from CarnegieLearning
although they have not been actively marketing it.  CarnegieLearning is
marketing several math tutors, most of them originally built by
Anderson's group.  Check their web site.  The Algebra I tutor is quite
widely used.

Susan Chipman, Ph.D.
ONR Code 342
800 N. Quincy Street
Arlington, VA 22217-5660
phone:  703-696-4318
fax:  703-696-1212


-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Ritter [mailto:ritter at ist.psu.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:28 PM
To: Steven Quinn; act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] intelligent programming tutors.....

I think the standard answer would be:  yes.  it would take some work, 
but the ideas behind the lisp tutor are based on a theory of how 
people think about programming, and that the basic concepts would 
carry over to other languages almost certainly.

cheers,

Frank

At 18:53 +1000 12/5/04, Steven Quinn wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>just wanted to ask the following question :
>
>Professor John Anderson has done some work to do with intelligent 
>programming tutors which teach LISP. I just wanted to ask how 
>closely related teaching LISP in this way is to teaching another 
>programming language like Java or C++ or maybe even XML ?
>
>So basically asking if one is able to create an intelligent 
>programming tutor for LISP, can one use similar ways and ideas and 
>methods to teach Java or C++ or XML ?
>
>And just wondering if anyone has had any experience with that ?
>
>Steven Quinn
>Student
>University of Queensland
>AUSTRALIA
>
>


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