EXPERIMENTAROUNDATRAININGENGINE --- Revision: 1.15

Abstract

We describe a teaching experiment where an introductory course to Computer Science is accompanied by a computerized training engine. This whole engine relies on the existence of an interpreter of the taught programming language that allows us to offer quizzes as well as exercises with some automatic marking facility. Students may then perform their homework with an immediate feedback without being connected to the Internet. However students' answers are eventually gathered in a central database where they may be analyzed thus providing the means for "personal coaching"