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 …

As computing becomes a mainstream discipline embedded in the school curriculum and
acts as an enabler for an increasing range of academic disciplines in higher education, the …

Formative feedback, aimed at helping students to improve their work, is an important factor
in learning. Many tools that offer programming exercises provide automated feedback on …

The education sector has benefited enormously through integrating digital technology driven
tools and platforms. In recent years, artificial intelligence based methods are being …

The increasing number of students in computer science courses leads to high efforts in
manual assessment of exercises. Existing assessment systems are not designed for …

In many domains where data are represented as graphs, learning a similarity metric among
graphs is considered a key problem, which can further facilitate various learning tasks, such …

In recent years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become a phenomenon
presenting the prospect of free high class education to everybody. They bear a tremendous …

In this paper I explain the design of our own assessment software and discuss our
experience of using it in relation to the above-mentioned factors and concerns. My reflection …

The development of computational thinking is a major topic in K-12 education. Many of these
experiences focus on teaching programming using block-based languages. As part of these …

As computing has become an integral part of our world, demand for teaching computational
thinking in K-12 has increased. One of its basic competences is programming, often taught …