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Using intelligent tutors to teach students how APIs are used for software engineering in practice / Vasanth Krishnamoorthy in IEEE transactions on education, Vol. 56 N° 3 (Août 2013) 

Public ISBD [article]  in IEEE transactions on education > Vol. 56 N° 3 (Août 2013) . - pp. 355 - 363 Titre : Using intelligent tutors to teach students how APIs are used for software engineering in practice Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Vasanth Krishnamoorthy, Auteur ; Bharatwaj Appasamy, Auteur ; Christopher Scaffidi, Auteur Année de publication : 2015 Article en page(s) : pp. 355 - 363 Note générale : Education Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Application  programming  interface  (API)  Computer  science  education  Electronic  learning  Software  engineering  Software  libraries Résumé : Computer science courses typically incorporate integrated training in software engineering, which includes learning how to reuse existing code libraries in new programs. This commonly presents a need to use the libraries' application programming interfaces (APIs) during project-based learning activities. The students learn these APIs with little support from the instructor. Instead, they primarily learn from whatever code examples they find on the Web-a scattershot approach that is slow, frustrating, and sometimes fruitless. Preliminary work investigated an improved approach that provides students with intelligent API tutors. This interactive educational content walks students through code examples selectively harvested from the Web. This approach increased students' knowledge of API method names, but a key pedagogical challenge remained: Students still lacked an understanding of common problems and surprises that they might encounter when using APIs in practice. Perhaps even more crucially, the prior statistical study provided no information about how students would perceive and accept the intelligent tutor approach, when given a choice. Therefore, this paper presents an enhanced approach that augments intelligent tutors with selected information from online FAQs and online open-source code, thereby providing more explanation and context about how to use APIs in practice. A qualitative study assessed student perceptions of the system's usability as well as suggestions for improvement, revealing that 100% of students considered the approach to be useful. A key implication is that providing information from online FAQs, related articles, and open-source code could facilitate computer science students' learning how to use APIs. ISSN : 0018-9359 En ligne : http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6422340&sortType%3Das [...] [article] Using intelligent tutors to teach students how APIs are used for software engineering in practice [texte imprimé] / Vasanth Krishnamoorthy, Auteur ; Bharatwaj Appasamy, Auteur ; Christopher Scaffidi, Auteur . - 2015 . - pp. 355 - 363. Education Langues : Anglais (eng) in IEEE transactions on education > Vol. 56 N° 3 (Août 2013) . - pp. 355 - 363 Mots-clés : Application  programming  interface  (API)  Computer  science  education  Electronic  learning  Software  engineering  Software  libraries Résumé : Computer science courses typically incorporate integrated training in software engineering, which includes learning how to reuse existing code libraries in new programs. This commonly presents a need to use the libraries' application programming interfaces (APIs) during project-based learning activities. The students learn these APIs with little support from the instructor. Instead, they primarily learn from whatever code examples they find on the Web-a scattershot approach that is slow, frustrating, and sometimes fruitless. Preliminary work investigated an improved approach that provides students with intelligent API tutors. This interactive educational content walks students through code examples selectively harvested from the Web. This approach increased students' knowledge of API method names, but a key pedagogical challenge remained: Students still lacked an understanding of common problems and surprises that they might encounter when using APIs in practice. Perhaps even more crucially, the prior statistical study provided no information about how students would perceive and accept the intelligent tutor approach, when given a choice. Therefore, this paper presents an enhanced approach that augments intelligent tutors with selected information from online FAQs and online open-source code, thereby providing more explanation and context about how to use APIs in practice. A qualitative study assessed student perceptions of the system's usability as well as suggestions for improvement, revealing that 100% of students considered the approach to be useful. A key implication is that providing information from online FAQs, related articles, and open-source code could facilitate computer science students' learning how to use APIs. ISSN : 0018-9359 En ligne : http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6422340&sortType%3Das [...]