Running in-class programming activities is difficult with existing software. In this paper, we present Necode, a web-based, open-source environment for creating and delivering these kinds of activities. Necode's APIs enable developers to create new activities and programming challenges, and to integrate additional programming languages into the environment. We present some sample activities to showcase Necode, including one in which students solve a programming problem, run their code through instructor-defined automated tests, and submit it to the instructor so that different solutions can be compared and discussed as a whole class. To assess Necode, we asked students to recreate displayed shapes and patterns using GLSL and surveyed students about their experiences; feedback on the tool was generally very positive.

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Creator

• Paley, Trevor

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-030622-201402
• 49876

Advisor

• Roberts, Charles Davis

Year

• 2022

Date created

• 2022-03-06

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International