Title
Learning Program Embeddings to Propagate Feedback on Student Code
Abstract
Providing feedback, both assessing final work and giving hints to stuck students, is difficult for open-ended assignments in massive online classes which can range from thousands to millions of students. We introduce a neural network method to encode programs as a linear mapping from an embedded precondition space to an embedded postcondition space and propose an algorithm for feedback at scale using these linear maps as features. We apply our algorithm to assessments from the Code.org Hour of Code and Stanford University's CS1 course, where we propagate human comments on student assignments to orders of magnitude more submissions.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
International Conference on Machine Learning
ENCODE,Computer science,Precondition,Theoretical computer science,Artificial intelligence,Linear map,Artificial neural network,Postcondition,Machine learning
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1505.05969
30
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.22
19
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christopher Piech161654.21
Jonathan Huang277747.66
Andy Nguyen31546.01
Mike Phulsuksombati4301.22
Mehran Sahami54138556.74
Leonidas J. Guibas6130841262.73