A "development web environment" for learning programming languages

Abstract

This paper proposes an environment for the teaching of program languages in a web environment. We consider that the student has to do exercises when he is learning a programming language; these tasks cause extra difficulties in conventional web environments. To remove these difficulties we propose an application that we have called DWE (Development Web Environment); the core is a language compiler integrated in the web application. Along with this compiler there are other modules to help the student while he's developing the programs; to obtain this we try to facilitate the communication teacher - student and student - student and we try to use the experience from all users in a group. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.