Recognizing Opportunities for Mixed-Initiative Interactions in Novice Programming

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As part of their education, Computer Science students develop hundreds of computer programs and receive only summative feedback on the end results of their program designs and code. We demonstrate a need for a formative feedback mixed-initiative system able to reflect on the progress of students and identify opportunities to prompt students when they venture into poor programming styles. With the eventual goal of developing a mixed-initiative system with these capabilities, able to make use of analysis of compile-time code segments, theories from research into self-regulated learning are applied to the problem of identifying opportunities for mixed-initiative interactions.