iPractice: a self-assessment tool for students learning computer programming in an urban campus
Benito Mendoza, José Reyes-Alamo, Huixin Wu, Aparicio Carranza, Laura Zavala · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2016
It is very common that students attending urban campuses do not live in university residence halls or dorms. In our case, many of our students spend around one hour and a half each way between home and school. We have developed an App for mobile devices that provides computer programming exercises and quizzes to help students practice and self-assess their knowledge during their commuting time. The most relevant part of this App is that it can be used off-line while the students travel in the subway without an Internet connection. In this paper, we discuss the features of this App and how it has been used to help increase the passing rate, from 65% to 76%, in an introductory computer programming course.