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ICSE 2009

SmartTutor: Creating IDE-based interactive tutorials via editable replay

Ying Zhang, Gang Huang, Nuyun Zhang, Hong Mei

DOI 10.1109/icse.2009.5070555dblp

Abstract

Interactive tutorials, like Eclipse's cheat sheets, are good for novice programmers to learn how to perform tasks (e.g., checking out a CVS project) in an integrated development environment (IDE). Creating these tutorials often requires programming effort that is time-consuming and difficult. In this paper, we propose an approach using editable replay of user actions to help authors create interactive tutorials with little programming effort. User actions of performing a task can be recorded, edited, and presented as a tutorial. The tutorial can be replayed interactively for mentoring. We present our SmartTutor implementation in the Eclipse IDE and conduct a preliminary evaluation on it, which demonstrates efficiency gains for the tutorial authors.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Zhang-al:ICSE09,
  author    = {Ying Zhang and
               Gang Huang and
               Nuyun Zhang and
               Hong Mei},
  title     = {{SmartTutor:} Creating {IDE-based} interactive tutorials via editable replay},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {559--562},
  publisher = {{IEEE}},
  year      = {2009},
}

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