An Online Integrated Development Environment for Automated Programming Assessment Systems

Eduard Frankford, Daniel Crazzolara, Michael Vierhauser, Niklas Meißner, Stephan Krusche, Ruth Breu

2025

Abstract

The increasing demand for programmers has led to a surge in participants in programming courses, making it increasingly challenging for instructors to assess student code manually. As a result, automated programming assessment systems (APASs) have been developed to streamline this process. These APASs support lecturers by managing and evaluating student programming exercises at scale. However, these tools often do not provide feature-rich online editors compared to their traditional integrated development environments (IDEs) counterparts. This absence of key features, such as syntax highlighting and autocompletion, can negatively impact the learning experience, as these tools are crucial for effective coding practice. To address this gap, this research contributes to the field of programming education by extracting and defining requirements for an online IDE in an educational context and presenting a prototypical implementation of an open-source solution for a scalable and secure online IDE. The usability of the new online IDE was assessed using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), gathering feedback from 27 first-year students through a structured survey. In addition to these qualitative insights, quantitative measures such as memory (RAM) usage were evaluated to determine the efficiency and scalability of the tool under varying usage conditions.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Frankford E., Crazzolara D., Vierhauser M., Meißner N., Krusche S. and Breu R. (2025). An Online Integrated Development Environment for Automated Programming Assessment Systems. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU; ISBN 978-989-758-746-7, SciTePress, pages 48-59. DOI: 10.5220/0013203000003932

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu25,
author={Eduard Frankford and Daniel Crazzolara and Michael Vierhauser and Niklas Meißner and Stephan Krusche and Ruth Breu},
title={An Online Integrated Development Environment for Automated Programming Assessment Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU},
year={2025},
pages={48-59},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013203000003932},
isbn={978-989-758-746-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU
TI - An Online Integrated Development Environment for Automated Programming Assessment Systems
SN - 978-989-758-746-7
AU - Frankford E.
AU - Crazzolara D.
AU - Vierhauser M.
AU - Meißner N.
AU - Krusche S.
AU - Breu R.
PY - 2025
SP - 48
EP - 59
DO - 10.5220/0013203000003932
PB - SciTePress