Soe Thandar Aung, May Zin Htun, Nobuo Funabiki, Yan Watequlis Syaifudin, Wen-Chung Kao
JavaScript is a lightweight and interpreter-based programming language that has gained increasing popularity due to its importance in web application development. To support self-study for novice students, we have developed the JavaScript programming learning assistant system (JSPLAS). JSPLAS implemented the grammar-concept understanding problem (GUP), which serves as an introductory step for learning basic concepts and client-side development in JavaScript. However, it currently lacks coverage of server-side development, which is also crucial in web application development. In this paper, we propose an extension of the Grammar-Concept Understanding Problem (GUP) for web server-side JavaScript programming. A GUP instance consists of a source code and a set of questions that inquire about the definitions of key grammar concepts used in the code, where the answer is the keyword itself. We employ string matching technique to evaluate the accuracy of students' answers. For evaluations, we generated 10 GUP instances by selecting 55 keywords and the corresponding questions for them, and assigned them to 41 students in Japan and Indonesia. Their solution results confirm the effectiveness of our proposal. © 2023 IEEE.
Okayama University, Department of Information and Communication Systems, Okayama, Japan; State Polytechnic of Malang, Department of Information Technology, Indonesia; National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan