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

[Steve Ritter]

Although we (Carnegie Learning) are marketing the math tutors, we don't 
have license to the programming tutors.

At one point, there was a C++ tutor, though I don't know how much 
curriculum it covered. There was some talk about producing a Java tutor 
as well, though I don't know if any work started on that.

Steve


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Steve Ritter, Ph.D.
VP, Senior Cognitive Scientist
Carnegie Learning
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Pittsburgh, PA 15222

sritter at carnegielearning.com
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On May 13, 2004, at 2:09 PM, 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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