Practical programming competencies are critical to the success in computer science (CS)
education and go-to-market of fresh graduates. Acquiring the required level of skills is a long …

Providing feedback on programming assignments is a tedious task for the instructor, and
even impossible in large Massive Open Online Courses with thousands of students …

This paper introduces the “Search, Align, and Repair” data-driven program repair framework
to automate feedback generation for introductory programming exercises. Distinct from …

Providing feedback is an integral part of teaching. Most open online courses on
programming make use of automated grading systems to support programming assignments …

Recently, various techniques have been proposed to automatically provide personalized
feedback on programming exercises. The cutting edge of which is the data-driven …

Swarm robotics collectively solve problems that are challenging for individual robots, from
environmental monitoring to entertainment. The algorithms enabling swarms allow …

Novice programmers struggle to comprehend specific programming constructs such as
arrays, recursion, and loops. One way to address this challenge is to provide practice …

A fundamental challenge in automated reasoning about programming assignments at scale
is clustering student submissions based on their underlying algorithms. State-of-the-art …

We present FixML, a system for automatically generating feedback on logical errors in
functional programming assignments. As functional languages have been gaining …

We present a novel algorithm for efficiently synthesizing imperative programs from
examples. Given a set of input-output examples and a partial program, our algorithm …