LISP Tutor Jr

overview

One of the earliest intelligent tutoring systems was created for teaching Lisp Programming at Carnegie Mellon University by Reiser, Anderson, Corbett, Farrell and others. This system included texts on introductory topics and interactive programming exercises. The intelligence of the LISP tutor was implemented in production rules which provided:

• model tracing: comparing partial student solutions to expected solution paths to provide feedback and hints, and
• knowledge tracing: tracking student acquisition of programming concepts and tailoring assigned exercises based on progress.

the tool

This tool provides the same texts and exercises as the original LISP tutor (many thanks to the folks at CMU), but with much less underlying intelligence. Users can register themselves, read the texts, and do the exercises. Hints for doing the exercises:

• You can enter as much of the remaining solution as you want.
• Code can be entered using the keyboard or the radio buttons.
• The exercises use only the built-in LISP functions which appear in the list.

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