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- Creators: De Luca, Gennaro
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Education of any skill based subject, such as mathematics or language, involves a significant amount of repetition and pratice. According to the National Survey of Student Engagements, students spend on average 17 hours per week reviewing and practicing material previously learned in a classroom, with higher performing students showing a tendency to spend more time practicing. As such, learning software has emerged in the past several decades focusing on providing a wide range of examples, practice problems, and situations for users to exercise their skills. Notably, math students have benefited from software that procedurally generates a virtually infinite number of practice problems and their corresponding solutions. This allows for instantaneous feedback and automatic generation of tests and quizzes. Of course, this is only possible because software is capable of generating and verifying a virtually endless supply of sample problems across a wide range of topics within mathematics. While English learning software has progressed in a similar manner, it faces a series of hurdles distinctly different from those of mathematics. In particular, there is a wide range of exception cases present in English grammar. Some words have unique spellings for their plural forms, some words have identical spelling for plural forms, and some words are conjugated differently for only one particular tense or person-of-speech. These issues combined make the problem of generating grammatically correct sentences complicated. To compound to this problem, the grammar rules in English are vast, and often depend on the context in which they are used. Verb-tense agreement (e.g. "I eat" vs "he eats"), and conjugation of irregular verbs (e.g. swim -> swam) are common examples. This thesis presents an algorithm designed to randomly generate a virtually infinite number of practice problems for students of English as a second language. This approach differs from other generation approaches by generating based on a context set by educators, so that problems can be generated in the context of what students are currently learning. The algorithm is validated through a study in which over 35 000 sentences generated by the algorithm are verified by multiple grammar checking algorithms, and a subset of the sentences are validated against 3 education standards by a subject matter expert in the field. The study found that this approach has a significantly reduced grammar error ratio compared to other generation algorithms, and shows potential where context specification is concerned.
ContributorsMoore, Zachary Christian (Author) / Amresh, Ashish (Thesis director) / Nelson, Brian (Committee member) / Software Engineering (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2016-05
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Education in computer science is a difficult endeavor, with learning a new programing language being a barrier to entry, especially for college freshman and high school students. Learning a first programming language requires understanding the syntax of the language, the algorithms to use, and any additional complexities the language carries. Often times this becomes a deterrent from learning computer science at all. Especially in high school, students may not want to spend a year or more simply learning the syntax of a programming language. In order to overcome these issues, as well as to mitigate the issues caused by Microsoft discontinuing their Visual Programming Language (VPL), we have decided to implement a new VPL, ASU-VPL, based on Microsoft's VPL. ASU-VPL provides an environment where users can focus on algorithms and worry less about syntactic issues. ASU-VPL was built with the concepts of Robot as a Service and workflow based development in mind. As such, ASU-VPL is designed with the intention of allowing web services to be added to the toolbox (e.g. WSDL and REST services). ASU-VPL has strong support for multithreaded operations, including event driven development, and is built with Microsoft VPL users in mind. It provides support for many different robots, including Lego's third generation robots, i.e. EV3, and any open platform robots. To demonstrate the capabilities of ASU-VPL, this paper details the creation of an Intel Edison based robot and the use of ASU-VPL for programming both the Intel based robot and an EV3 robot. This paper will also discuss differences between ASU-VPL and Microsoft VPL as well as differences between developing for the EV3 and for an open platform robot.
ContributorsDe Luca, Gennaro (Author) / Chen, Yinong (Thesis director) / Cheng, Calvin (Committee member) / Computer Science and Engineering Program (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2015-12
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The field of quantum computing is an exciting area of research that allows quantum mechanics such as superposition, interference, and entanglement to be utilized in solving complex computing problems. One real world application of quantum computing involves applying it to machine learning problems. In this thesis, I explore the effects of choosing different circuit ansatz and optimizers on the performance of a variational quantum classifier tasked with binary classification.
ContributorsHsu, Brightan (Author) / De Luca, Gennaro (Thesis director) / Chen, Yinong (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Computer Science and Engineering Program (Contributor)
Created2022-12
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Find My College is an app to help people who are interested in pursuing a collegiate degree; find a college/s that is right for them. This app is designed using the Ionic Framework, to allow access across all operating systems such as Android and MacOS. We wanted to create an app that people using Android or Apple can use, and this framework allows us to do that. The app is very user friendly and straightforward, which makes it usable to all types of people. It will be a free to use app that can be improved and adjusted if changes are needed/wanted.
ContributorsSolis, Jalen (Author) / Vadlamudi, Sai (Co-author) / Miller, Phillip (Thesis director) / De Luca, Gennaro (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Computer Science and Engineering Program (Contributor)
Created2022-05
ContributorsSolis, Jalen (Author) / Vadlamudi, Sai (Co-author) / Miller, Phillip (Thesis director) / De Luca, Gennaro (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Computer Science and Engineering Program (Contributor)
Created2022-05
ContributorsSolis, Jalen (Author) / Vadlamudi, Sai (Co-author) / Miller, Phillip (Thesis director) / De Luca, Gennaro (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Computer Science and Engineering Program (Contributor)
Created2022-05
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Programming front-end human computer interfaces follows a unique approach of iterative design and testing to produce a creative model envisioned by the developer and designer. Small but frequent changes to visual or audio aspects of the program are commonplace in order to implement different design ideas, implementations, and adjustments. Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) acts as a compelling programming paradigm towards this iterative design process, following its strength in utilizing time-varying values. Therefore, this thesis will introduce Coda, a Visual Programming Language (VPL) focused on developing audio interfaces using FRP. Coda focuses on the goal of streamlining audio interface prototyping and development, through two primary features: rapid but sensible code hot-reloading, and the use of time and I/O as an interactive development tool. These features allow Coda to greatly reduce the development cycle time commonly seen in typical, text-based programming languages. Coda also comes in its own integrated development environment (IDE) in the form of a web-application.
ContributorsShrestha, Abhash (Author) / Omais, Adam (Co-author) / De Luca, Gennaro (Thesis director) / Chen, Yinong (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Computer Science and Engineering Program (Contributor)
Created2022-05
Description
Programming front-end human computer interfaces follows a unique approach of iterative design and testing to produce a creative model envisioned by the developer and designer. Small but frequent changes to visual or audio aspects of the program are commonplace in order to implement different design ideas, implementations, and adjustments. Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) acts as a compelling programming paradigm towards this iterative design process, following its strength in utilizing time-varying values. Therefore, this thesis will introduce Coda, a Visual Programming Language (VPL) focused on developing audio interfaces using FRP. Coda focuses on the goal of streamlining audio interface prototyping and development, through two primary features: rapid but sensible code hot-reloading, and the use of time and I/O as an interactive development tool. These features allow Coda to greatly reduce the development cycle time commonly seen in typical, text-based programming languages. Coda also comes in its own integrated development environment (IDE) in the form of a web-application.
ContributorsOmais, Adam (Author) / Shrestha, Abhash (Co-author) / De Luca, Gennaro (Thesis director) / Chen, Yinong (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Computer Science and Engineering Program (Contributor)
Created2022-05