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There are many difficulties with learning and teaching programming that can be alleviated with the use of software tools. Most of these tools have focused on the teaching of introductory programming concepts where commonly code fragments or small user programs are run in a sandbox or virtual machine, often in the cloud. These do not permit user software to directly interact with system resources and accordingly do not directly support advanced programming concepts such as multiprocessing, inter-process communication (IPC), Device IO, concurrency, synchronization, and platform independence. This paper presents a new tool for teaching advanced programming called the Interactive C Environment (ICE) that is designed to support teaching of all these programming concepts by automating many tasks for both the learner and teacher. It consists of an integrated development environment (IDE) with a built-in editor, compiler, automated testing framework, and a built-in makefile processor. It supports programs written in C-99 and a subset of C++ using both MS Windows and Linux System APIs. ICE not only provides secure, automated testing and assessment of projects but also group learning support in terms of comparative statistics. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579282.]

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert