Investigating the impact of adopting Python and C languages for introductory engineering programming courses

Balreira, Dennis Giovani; Silveira, Thiago L. T. da; Wickboldt, Juliano Araújo

doi:10.1002/cae.22570

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“…In the field of education, the inability to teach software languages is due to the complexity of the courses and the inability to comprehend the integrity of the subject (Ozoran, 2012). For programming students to learn a software language, adopting C and Python programming languages in "introduction to programming" courses is necessary (Balreira, 2023). Data structures can be used for the classification of algorithms on Java and C++ programming languages (Bui, 2019).…”

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The Design of Mechanisms via Artificial Intelligence

Denizhan¹

2023

Interdisciplinary Studies on Contemporary Research Practices in Engineering in the 21st Century II

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The engineering design is a very comprehensive term and required a number of different disciplines work together. There are many examples of engineering design studies and design of mechanisms is one of them. The design of mechanisms is one of the focused areas by mechanical engineering field and it includes kinematic synthesis, kinematic analysis, kinetics, dynamics, force and optimization of the mechanisms. The mechanisms can be complex; hence, additional help is needed in solution process. At that point, artificial intelligence (AI) of computer science is a really helpful for the mechanical engineers. Artificial intelligence field was found in 1956 and it is applicable to significant parts of the mechanism design. However, mechanical engineers cannot really apply artificial intelligence principles to mechanism design and as a result, design of mechanisms via AI became an interdisciplinary engineering studies between mechanical engineering and computer engineering. In this chapter of the book, mechanism design with artificial intelligence is focused and some sample applications are shown.

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Section: What Is Programming?mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Design of Mechanisms via Artificial Intelligence

Denizhan¹

2023

Interdisciplinary Studies on Contemporary Research Practices in Engineering in the 21st Century II

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“…To eliminate subjective differences in source code, we used the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) to represent the programming concepts used in an objective and fully automated manner. An AST is a tree data structure representing the abstract syntactic structure of the source code written in a formal language [19], which was Python in our case [20].…”

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Source Code Analysis in Programming Education: Evaluating Learning Content with Self-Organizing Maps

2023

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Due to the everchanging and evergrowing nature of programming technologies, the gap between the programming industry’s needs and the educational capabilities of both formal and informal educational environments has never been wider. However, the need to learn computer programming has never been greater, regardless of the motivation behind it. The number of programming concepts to be taught is increasing over time, while the amount of time available for education and training usually remains the same. The objective of this research was to analyze the source codes used in many educational systems to teach fundamental programming concepts to learners, regardless of their prior experience in programming. A total of 25 repositories containing 3882 Python modules were collected for the analysis. Through self-organization of the collected content, we obtained very compelling results about code structure, distribution, and differences. Based on those results, we concluded that Self-Organizing Maps are a powerful tool for both content and knowledge management, because they can highlight problems in the curriculum’s density as well as transparently indicate which programming concepts it has successfully observed and learned to recognize. Based on the level of transparency exhibited by Self-Organizing Maps, it is safe to say that they could be used in future research to enhance both human and machine learning of computer programming. By achieving this level of transparency, such an Artificial Intelligence system would be able to assist in overall computer programming education by communicating what should be taught, what needs to be learned, and what is known.

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