A Powerful Labs Environment for Computer Science Courses

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Programming assignments are key to any computer science course.In today's digital landscape of education, summative assessments, often called labs, are assigned on a weekly basis to students.The goals of these assessments are often to reinforce and to evaluate mastery of the concepts taught in the course.Upon graduation, students are tasked with programming complex projects.A key aspect of a CS student's success in the real world is their ability to develop complex software in professional IDEs (integrated development environments).In this paper we describe a new and powerful labs environment that enables students to master their skills in software development through a cloud-based IDE with support for over 50 programming languages.This labs environment supports an auto-grader and professional unit testing frameworks.Additionally, the labs environment also provides instructors the opportunity to collaborate with students in real-time.We present student usage and behavior data from use of these labs in 300 introductory programming courses across 219 universities.

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