E CLIPSE P REDICTOR Jason Carter

WHY USE THIS SOFTWARE 2 Estimates total time spent on an each assignment Help me accomplish one of my research goals Knows the assignment

O NE OF THE G OALS OF THIS P ROJECT 3 Automatically predict when students are having difficulty with some aspect of code Automatically predict when students are having difficulty with some aspect of code Student 1 Student 2 Notify a TA that the students are having a problem You are stuck.Student 1 is stuck.

T O A CCOMPLISH T HIS G OAL 4 Student int i = 0; 1. Edit line of code 2. Set breakpoint Log of Programming Actions Log your programming actions Monitor how you are doing?

H OW D O WE K NOW H OW Y OU A RE D OING ? 5 We define how you are doing as your status. Define several types of statuses.

C OULD U SE H ELP 6 You think you have an idea that can fix a problem, but you aren't sure how to implement it You think you have an idea that can fix a problem, but you aren't sure how to implement it

S TUCK 7 You cannot solve a problem and have exhausted most of your resources such as searching the web or asking a student for help

E UREKA 8 You have finally solved a problem or just got out of being stuck

M AKING P ROGRESS 9 When the software guesses that you are stuck, could use help, or eureka, but you are actually making progress

B ACK F ROM B REAK 10 You have been inactive for a certain amount of time. Back from break is when you return from inactivity.

EXPLICITLY INDICATE CURRENT STATUS 11

T RAINING THE S OFTWARE 12 Software will predict your status and give you a notification Correct the software by pressing the button that corresponds to your status

T RAIN S OFTWARE T O B ETTER E STIMATE T OTAL T IME 13 Correct the break time The default break time is 15 min.

B REAK T IME F EATURE 14 Total break time, Average Break Time, Last Break Time

I NSTALLATION 15 Download plug-in from: cs.unc.edu/~carterjl/comp401/eclipsePredictor.jar The name of the plug-in is eclipsePredictor.jar User Manual will soon be available for download.

I NSTALLATION (C ONT.) 16 Open a command window and navigate to where Eclipse is installed Press Start Press Run Type cmd.exe Note : You only have to do this once. Later you can execute eclipse as usual.

C ONTACT I NFO 17