WebIDE is a web-based online learning environment. WebIDE has been used
successfully to teach CS0 and CS1 students Java and C concepts and software
engineering best practices, specically Test Driven Development. Previous Web-
IDE development has concentrated on developing functionality. The main goal
of this eort is to improve two non-functional aspects of WebIDE. The rst is to
design a more delightful user interface. The second is to add a scoring mecha-
nism that encourages students to develop best practices. The scoring mechanism
rewards students who answer the question correctly on the rst attempt, dis-
couraging them from spamming the answer button. Our objective is to motivate
the students to think before answering. The innovations are evaluated through
a semi-controlled experiment that was conducted during the Fall quarter of 2012
at Cal Poly.
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successfully to teach CS0 and CS1 students Java and C concepts and software
engineering best practices, specically Test Driven Development. Previous Web-
IDE development has concentrated on developing functionality. The main goal
of this eort is to improve two non-functional aspects of WebIDE. The rst is to
design a more delightful user interface. The second is to add a scoring mecha-
nism that encourages students to develop best practices. The scoring mechanism
rewards students who answer the question correctly on the rst attempt, dis-
couraging them from spamming the answer button. Our objective is to motivate
the students to think before answering. The innovations are evaluated through
a semi-controlled experiment that was conducted during the Fall quarter of 2012
at Cal Poly.
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successfully to teach CS0 and CS1 students Java and C concepts and software
engineering best practices, specically Test Driven Development. Previous Web-
IDE development has concentrated on developing functionality. The main goal
of this eort is to improve two non-functional aspects of WebIDE. The rst is to
design a more delightful user interface. The second is to add a scoring mecha-
nism that encourages students to develop best practices. The scoring mechanism
rewards students who answer the question correctly on the rst attempt, dis-
couraging them from spamming the answer button. Our objective is to motivate
the students to think before answering. The innovations are evaluated through
a semi-controlled experiment that was conducted during the Fall quarter of 2012
at Cal Poly.
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