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

[Bonnie John]

And Wayne Gray did a Cobol tutor called Grace.
If you can tutor Cobol, anything's possible.
Bonnie



At 2:27 PM -0400 5/13/04, John Rehling wrote:
>         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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