Modelagem de um ambiente para iniciantes em programação apoiado por um assistente inteligente

Abstract

This work presents a proposal for a computing environment called AIIP - Intelligent Environment for Beginners in Programming, whose objective is to help students and teachers in the teaching/learning process of computer programming. AIIP uses the problem solving approach, whose problems stored in their database are proposed to be solved by the students during their interactions with the environment. AIIP also has an intelligent assistant to help students, monitoring their actions, providing hints and appropriate feedbacks during the solving problems process, and identifying the mistakes while they are developing their algorithmic solutions. About teachers, the intelligent assistant also helps evaluating students’s algorithmic solutions automatically according to pre-established metrics, capable of flexibility. After conducting an experiment and application of a survey, both related to the use of AIIP, with Information Systems students of Federal University of Alagoas, the obtained results indicate the feasibility of the proposal as tool to help students and teachers in initial classes of computer programming.