Using the SCORE software package to analyse novice computer graphics programming

Maximilian Wittmann; Matthew Bower; Manolya Kavakli-Thorne

doi:10.1145/1999747.1999782

Using the SCORE software package to analyse novice computer graphics programming

Maximilian Wittmann^*, Matthew Bower, Manolya Kavakli-Thorne

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School of Computing

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

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This paper presents the SCORE (Student Coding Observation and Recording Engine) software package designed to capture and analyse student coding processes. The package consists of an Eclipse [1] plug-in to gather observational data while students code a programming task, and an analysis tool that allows researchers to visualise, categorise and annotate changes in code. Because the SCORE package supports code text level analysis it enables more in-depth understanding of student programming and problem solving approaches than meta-data or program output analysis tools. SCORE also provides features to assist the analysis of Computer Graphics programs. An example analysis of a student's Computer Graphics assignments demonstrates how SCORE was used to reveal the dominant role of general programming issues in the early assignment, whereas spatial programming issues persisted throughout both assignments.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ITiCSE'11 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	118-122
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9781450308878
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1999747.1999782
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science, ITiCSE'11 - Darmstadt, Germany Duration: 27 Jun 2011 → 29 Jun 2011

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Other	16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science, ITiCSE'11
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Darmstadt
Period	27/06/11 → 29/06/11

Keywords

computer science education
computer graphics education
program analysis
observational research
analysis software

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Wittmann, M, Bower, M & Kavakli-Thorne, M 2011, Using the SCORE software package to analyse novice computer graphics programming. in ITiCSE'11 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 118-122, 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science, ITiCSE'11, Darmstadt, Germany, 27/06/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/1999747.1999782

Using the SCORE software package to analyse novice computer graphics programming. / Wittmann, Maximilian; Bower, Matthew ; Kavakli-Thorne, Manolya.
ITiCSE'11 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2011. p. 118-122.

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