The PL-Detective Revisited

Christoph Reichenbach

doi:10.1145/3426431.3428655

The PL-Detective Revisited

Christoph Reichenbach

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Abstract

The semantics of programming languages comprise many concepts that are alternatives to each other, such as by-reference and by-value parameter passing. To help teach these concepts, Diwan et al. introduced the programming language Mystery, with fixed syntax but configurable semantics, and described how this language enables new approaches to teaching programming languages concepts. In this paper, we reproduce the studies by Diwan et al. in a Swedish setting, describe extensions to the original system, and introduce a new technique for evaluating the utility of student experiments. We largely confirm the earlier findings and show how our evaluation technique helps us in our understanding of student experiments.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on SPLASH-E
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	12–22
ISBN (Print)	9781450381802
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3426431.3428655
Publication status	Published - 2020 Nov
Event	2020 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications, Software for Humanity, SPLASH-E 2020 - Virtual, United States Duration: 2020 Nov 20 → 2020 Nov 20

Publication series

Name	SPLASH-E 2020
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery

Conference

Conference	2020 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications, Software for Humanity, SPLASH-E 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual
Period	2020/11/20 → 2020/11/20

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Computer Science
Educational Sciences

Keywords

PL-Detective
Education
Programming Language Concepts

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WASP startup package Christoph Reichenbach
Reichenbach, C.
2017/10/16 → 2021/10/15
Project: Research

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Reichenbach, C 2020, The PL-Detective Revisited. in Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on SPLASH-E. SPLASH-E 2020, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, USA, pp. 12–22, 2020 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications, Software for Humanity, SPLASH-E 2020
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