Xola Ntumy
MIT EECS Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar
Automated Tutor for Teaching Programming
2012–2013
Armando Solar Lezama
Semantic grading has been researched heavily but not heavily commercialized. The current prototype system, which CAP has developed, is written for C#. In its execution, C# programs are first translated into an intermediate language (SKETCH), which is then used by a SAT solver to give semantic feedback. For it to gain more visibility and a larger impact, it would need to incorporate interfaces like Python and Java. My work aims to implement Python features into a frontend parser for the system.
My internship at Standard & Poors Financial Services LLC involved Java web application development with the Spring MVC framework. I have worked with Prof. Abelson at MIT on mobile app client development with Google App Inventor. I traveled to Uganda, South Africa and Ghana to initiate networking teams at partner universities for the Robert R. Taylor Network, MIT.