Computer-aided instruction model for procedural programming languages

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Computer Aided Instruction (CAI) is the process of teaching by computer. Computer-based educational systems are valuable tools to improve learning. It is thus worth endowing programming environments with educational capabilities to help students learn programming. Computer Programming is a typical introductory computer science course that is offered to all science and engineering students in an academic environment. The amount of attention traditionally paid to the syntax of a programming language in the first course is excessive, and ought to be replaced with a more balanced introduction to the discipline. Program development process has three distinct phases: understand the problem, design the solution, and code the program. Much of the creativity in programming is concentrated in designing the solution rather than implementing it in a selected language. We have developed a model, called Computer Aided Programming Education (CAPE), that supports the program development process. CAPE consists of problem definition and algorithm construction modules. Algorithm construction module is currently supported with a facility to map an algorithm(s) into FORTRAN or Pascal code. CAPE motivates students to study the algorithmic problems operationally and provides a mechanism for rapid prototyping in various programming languages.