Rhodes, Christophe. 2018. 'Using Lisp-based pseudocode to probe student understanding'. In: 11th European Lisp Symposium. Marbella, Spain April 16-17, 2018. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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We describe our use of Lisp to generate teaching aids for an Algo-rithms and Data Structures course taught as part of the undergrad-uate Computer Science curriculum. Specifically, we have made use of the ease of construction of domain-specific languages in Lisp to build an restricted language with programs capable of being pretty-printed as pseudocode, interpreted as abstract instructions, and treated as data in order to produce modified distractor versions. We examine student performance, report on student and educator reflection, and discuss practical aspects of delivering using this teaching tool.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Computing
Dates:	Date Event 20 March 2018 Accepted 17 April 2018 Published
Event Location:	Marbella, Spain
Date range:	April 16-17, 2018
Item ID:	23155
Date Deposited:	12 Apr 2018 09:19
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 16:44
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/23155

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