A Web Environment to Support Teaching Introductory Programming

This study describes a Web environment for supporting the teaching of Introduction to Programming" course, which is taught to around 350 students/semester. The wide variety of student backgrounds and access to resources has rendered this task very challenging. This paper discusses the design, implementation and experiences related to a Web based learning environment. To this end, a web environment which also enables students to write their C programs on a web page is developed, deployed and evaluated.