CodeMage: educational programming environment for beginners

Abstract

CodeMage is an interactive educational programming environment targeted at novice Java programmers who have little knowledge in basic programming. The system comes with innovative features such as, real-time guidance and reviews, code generation tool, visual debugger, hinting system for best practices, remote tutor and database manipulation tool which makes it a unique educational programming environment. Though many of programming tools are available in the market, they have their drawbacks in suitability to be adopted in programming by beginners due to the complexity in software interface, cryptic error messages and warning messages, no adequate support to fix errors and not adhering to real-world programming context etc. CodeMage is an attempt to overcome above problems and change how novices perceive and practice Java programming around the world and it is working as expected.