Arthur Rump

Automation Support for Giving Feedback in Learning Programming by Doing

Arthur Rump — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Providing effective feedback on open-ended programming assignments is a challenge, particularly at scale. This challenge impacts student learning, as timely and accurate feedback is crucial to improve their programming and program design skills. We intend to develop an approach leveraging automation to support the feedback process, without requiring changes to …

Requirements for an Automated Assessment Tool for Learning Programming by Doing

Arthur Rump — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Assessment of open-ended assignments such as programming projects is a complex and time-consuming task. When students learn to program, however, they benefit from receiving timely feedback, which requires an assessment of their current work. Our goal is to build a tool that assists in this process by partially automating the …

A Meta Perspective on a Refined Model of Ill-definedness

Arthur Rump — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Last week my co-author Vadim Zaytsev presented our paper A Refined Model of Ill-definedness in Project-Based Learning at the Educators Symposium of MODELS 2022. Go read that paper first, or this won’t make much sense. In this post I try to answer a question we got afterwards.

If you …

A Refined Model of Ill-definedness in Project-Based Learning

Arthur Rump — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Project-based courses are crucial to gain practically relevant knowledge in modelling and programming education. However, they fall into the “ill-defined” domain: there are many possible solutions; the quality of a deliverable is subjective and not formally assessable; reaching the goals means designing new artefacts and analysing new information; and the …

Atelier – Tutor Moderated Comments in Programming Education

Ansgar Fehnker — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200

In the programming course of our engineering design degree tutorials are the focal point of learning. This is especially so since we employ a tinkering based educational approach, in which students explore, from the very beginning, the material by self-defined projects. The assignment defines ingredients to use and sets expectations …

Automated Assessment of Learning Objectives in Programming Assignments

Arthur Rump — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0200

Individual feedback is a core ingredient of a personalised learning path. However, it also is time-intensive and, as a teaching form, it is not easily scalable. In order to make individual feedback realisable for larger groups of students, we develop tool support for teaching assistants to use in the process …

Atelier: An Online Platform for Programming Tutorials

Ansgar Fehnker — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0100

The aim of the Atelier project is to develop an online platform that creates an atelier-like setting that emphasises collaboration and sharing of ideas. It is built for the Community of Practice of students, student assistants, and lecturers involved in teaching programming in Processing in the first year of the …

Automated Assessment of Learning Objectives in Programming Assignments

Arthur Rump — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0200

With online forms of education, it has become harder to ‘gauge the room’ and get an impression of how well students are following along. We introduce Apollo, a tool that automatically analyses code uploaded by students to get an overview of their progression towards the learning objectives of the course …

Git-based versioning using FAKE

Arthur Rump — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0200

How to use FAKE to automatically set version numbers based on your Git history.

For Fake.StaticGen, I wanted to have a semi-automated way of determining the version number for each release. Inspired by Nerdbank.GitVersioning, I liked the idea of having a unique version for every commit, but I …

versionsof.net

Arthur Rump — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0200

.NET Core versioning is a mess. There are lots and lots and lots of version numbers, from runtime to SDK, from Visual Studio to languages and of course .NET Standard. So what SDK corresponds to which runtime again? I know there some sort of a system, but it differs per …

NetCore.Versions

Arthur Rump — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0200

To display version information about .NET Core on versionsof.net, I had to decode the releases.json files in the dotnet/core repo. Not a big problem, you’d think. These are just JSON files, how hard can it be? That’s fair, but the schema, nor the data of …

Fallback styling for embedded Tweets

Arthur Rump — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0200

Sometimes you want to embed a Tweet in your blog posts. At least I do. With a bit of CSS, you won’t have to depend on an external script to make your embedded Tweet recognizable as a Tweet.

Embedding a Tweet on your website is easy to do. Find …

Fake.StaticGen

Arthur Rump — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0100

Fake.StaticGen is a toolkit for generating static websites using FAKE build scripts. It provides a framework for including pages and files and writing those out to disk in the correct folder structure. Fake.StaticGen tries to be very flexible and give you full control of the way you want …

Introducing versionsof.net

Arthur Rump — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0100

Animating GridViewItems with Windows.UI.Composition (aka the Visual Layer)

Arthur Rump — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0200

If you’ve ever used the beta version of myTube! (and you should), you’re probably familiar with the effect I wanted to create:

I absolutely love this effect, and when I accidentally open the non-beta version of myTube, where it’s not yet implemented, I miss it, often to …

“Good explanation, but now what?” - Thoughts on getting people started with .NET

Arthur Rump — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0200

On what I think are the biggest problems with education about .NET, and how I would do things different if I were to create a tutorial on C# today.

I was listening to a .NET Rocks! episode with Ian Cooper about starting a .NET Renaissance, analogous to the Java Renaissance …

Schoolrooster voor Zermelo

Arthur Rump — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0200

Schoolrooster voor Zermelo is an app that allows students and teachers to check their timetables on all their Windows 10 devices. The app works with all schools and organizations that use the Zermelo portal technology to manage the timetabling process. The app is built on the Universal Windows Platform with …

My favorite podcasts

Arthur Rump — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0200

I enjoy listening to podcasts. Where others listen to music with everything they do, I much prefer people talking and learning something along the way. Here’s a list of my favorite podcasts, for developers, for techies and some for everyone.

There are a ton of developer podcasts out there …

Visual Studio 2017 .csproj version patching in AppVeyor

Arthur Rump — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0100

How to set your package versions dynamically without creating an AssemblyInfo.cs file.

After the debacle with project.json and .xproj, Microsoft settled on a simpler, more modern version of the old .csproj project system with Visual Studio 2017. One of the changes advanced users will notice when creating a …

Explore your Akavache cache on UWP

Arthur Rump — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Akavache is an awesome library for almost every .NET desktop and mobile application platform to store both important user data and expiring local cache data. I’ve been using Akavache in a UWP app to cache results from a web service. In the Akavache README, the Akavache Explorer application is …

How to hide the StatusBar in Landscape on UWP

Arthur Rump — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Windows 10 Mobile has lost a lot of the awesome UI/UX from the good ol’ Windows Phone 7 era, but there’s one thing that they kept around: the enormous amount of space the statusbar takes up in landscape view. I still love the look and feel of the …

Hello world!

Arthur Rump — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100

I’d like to use the opportunity of this first post to tell about the technology behind this blog, as that’s something I’m always interested in myself. This website is build using the Hexo static site generator, hosted on GitLab Pages. The theme is based on Icarus, which …

Image of the Day

Arthur Rump — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0100

In 2014 I released my first app into what was then called the Windows Phone Store. It shows the latest background images used on Bing, and allows you to save them in multiple different formats, both landscape and portrait orientations. The app was built using the WinRT SDK and localized …