An animated pedagogical agent for assisting novice programmers within a desktop computer environment
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This research proposes that an intelligent animated agent is able toprovide learning support, in the form of mentoring, to novice programmerswithin the Cognitive Apprenticeship pedagogy. This small paper outlinesthe nature of learning to program, how an intelligent agent may be used tosupport the learner and the design of a new architecture, called MRCHIPS,to control reasoning and behaviour for such an agent.
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