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

[John Rehling]

         The advanced placement exam subject language has since moved on 
from Pascal to Java (having been C++ for a while). Certainly if a tutor was 
constructed for any of these languages, it *could* be done for the others. 
LISP and Prolog are both quite different from Pascal, Java, and C++ and 
from each other. However, none of those differences would change the answer 
to the original question as to whether or not it is *possible* (and it 
obviously is). Adapting an existing tutor from Pascal to Java would be 
easier than adapting a LISP tutor to Java.

At 02:09 PM 5/13/2004 -0400, Chipman, Susan wrote:
>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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