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Improving Webide Through Delightful Design And Gamification, Michael Hilton
Improving Webide Through Delightful Design And Gamification, Michael Hilton
Master's Theses
WebIDE is a web-based online learning environment. WebIDE has been used
successfully to teach CS0 and CS1 students Java and C concepts and software
engineering best practices, specically Test Driven Development. Previous Web-
IDE development has concentrated on developing functionality. The main goal
of this eort is to improve two non-functional aspects of WebIDE. The rst is to
design a more delightful user interface. The second is to add a scoring mecha-
nism that encourages students to develop best practices. The scoring mechanism
rewards students who answer the question correctly on the rst attempt, dis-
couraging them from spamming the …