The Java Starter: an Ontology-Based Tutoring System for Java Beginners

This paper presents the design and development of the Java Starter, an ontology-based tutoring system meant to support the teaching of the Java programming language to beginners. The developed prototype is capturing the domain knowledge in the form of an ontology, developed using the Protégé ontology editor. The reasoner used for inference tasks is HermiT 1.4.3.456. The system has been tested at every level of implementation, using JUnit for the Java component, Selenium for the user interface, and the HermiT reasoner for the ontology.