Digital Teaching Assistant for the Python Programming Course

The digitalization of modern economic sectors leads to the lack of software developers in many industries. Hence, there is the increasing demand for mass training of IT specialists in colleges and universities. With the increasing students count, the workload for teachers of disciplines connected with IT tremendously increases. The automation of software developers training allows to reduce the burden on teachers by saving them from routine work. In this paper, we provide the details regarding the development of the Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA), the information system used in Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education “MIREA – Russian Technological University”, integrated into the Python programming course. The considered system consists of two components, namely, the DTA core, and the DTA web application, both components are implemented using the Python programming language. The DTA core generates tasks and tests for students, and the DTA web application allows students to interact with the core. We describe the architecture of DTA and visualize the statistics collected during system operation.