Computer programming is a complex field that requires rigorous practice in code writing and learning skills, which can be one of the critical challenges teaching programming. The complicated nature computer an instructor to manage its resources diligently generate programming-related questions for students need conceptual procedural rules. In this regard, automatic question generation technique...

Automatic programming is the use of search techniques to find programs that solve a problem. The most commonly explored automatic programming technique is genetic programming, which uses genetic algorithms to carry out the search. In this paper we introduce a new technique called Ant Colony Programming (ACP) which uses an ant colony based search in place of genetic algorithms. This algorithm is...

This chapter uses three differently sized versions of an illustrative problem that has considerable regularity, symmetry, and homogeneity in its problem environment to compare genetic programming with and without the newly developed mechanism of automatic function definition. Genetic programming with automatic function definition can automatically decompose a problem into simpler subproblems, s...

Genetic programming is an automatic technique for producing a computer program that solves, or approximately solves, a problem. This chapter reviews several recent examples of human-competitive results produced by genetic programming. The examples all involve the automatic synthesis of a complex structure from a high-level statement of the requirements for the structure. The illustrative result...

The object-oriented style of programming facilitates program adaptation and enhances program genericness, but at the expense of efficiency. Automatic program specialization can be used to generate specialized, efficient implementations for specific scenarios, but requires the program to be structured appropriately for specialization and is yet another new concept for the programmer to understan...

Performance analysis and tuning are well established software engineering processes in the realm of imperative programming. This work is a step towards establishing the standards of performance analysis in the realm of answer set programming – a prominent constraint programming paradigm. We present and study the roles of human tuning and automatic configuration tools in this process. The case s...