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Supporting learners in introductory programming assignments at scale is a necessity. This support includes automated feedback on what learners did incorrectly. Existing approaches cast the problem as automatically repairing learners'…

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Large repositories of source code for research tend to limit their utility to static analysis of the code, as they give no guarantees on whether the projects are compilable, much less runnable in any way. The immediate consequence of the…

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