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Prutor: An Intelligent Learning and Management System for Programming Courses

By Amey Karkare, Purushottam Kar
Communications of the ACM, November 2022, Vol. 65 No. 11, Pages 62-64
10.1145/3550481
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Programming education in India faces an uphill task of educating two-plus million students who enroll in degree programs with coding as a core skill.¹⁰ Fulfilling this demand presents unique challenges due to inadequate infrastructure and the unavailability of technical content in regional languages⁶ with unfortunate outcomes: more than 90% of Indian graduates have coding skills inadequate for IT roles, and more than 37% struggle to write code that even compiles.¹³

Studies indicate a steep decline in coding skills between graduates from top-100 colleges and the rest.¹² While concerning, since only a tiny minority of students enroll in top-tier colleges, this is not entirely surprising. A recent study indicates that even experienced instructors at non-top-tier colleges in India struggle to write code.¹⁰ Offering high-quality instruction (monitoring student progress, giving feedback, uniform grading) thus becomes doubly challenging when instructors teach large class sizes with little to no teaching support.

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