Kodethon Courses
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Kodethon has grown a lot over the past few years. When we started building Kodethon, we wanted to build an easy-to-use, easy-to-learn, yet powerful online integrated development environment (IDE) for university students. Now, Kodethon can support programming all of the programming languages used to teach at UC Davis. Since we first deployed it in Spring 2015, it has been used by over 3,000 students in at least 15 different courses.
We also observed that Kodethon could help instructors as well. Computer Science instructors need a system to create, collect, and automatically grade programming assignments. Leveraging Kodethon’s storage and execution power, we built Courses. Instructors can create assignments and set up test cases in Kodethon. When a student submits his/her assignment, Kodethon builds the program and runs it with the given test cases. It gives him/her feedback about which test cases pass and which fail.
To date, it has been used in at least four different courses including Introdution to Programming (ECS 10), Introduction to Programming (ECS 30), Machine-dependent Programming (ECS 50), and Theory of Computation (ECS 120). A couple of professors, one from University of Houston and one from Georgia Tech, are intersted in using Kodethon in their universities.