Mining for Helium

Jurriaan Hage, Peter van Keeken

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Abstract

Over the years we have collected a large collection of Haskell programs written by students in a first-year functional programming course using the Helium compiler. The mining of such a collection is not trivial, especially since the programming was done in vivo, and hence largely outside our control. We have developed a library in Haskell, called Neon, for computing characteristics of this collection of programs and presenting the results visually. These computations range from simple kinds of analyses like computing the average length of a program per student to determining how long it takes for a programmer to resolve a type error.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherDepartment of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University
Number of pages22
Publication statusPublished - 2006

Publication series

NameTechnical Report Series
No.UU-CS-2006-047
ISSN (Print)0924-3275

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