Arabic Computer Programming Education Tool

Abstract

In this paper, we present a programming tool, which is built to help students write their programs in Arabic in a smart environment and execute them directly on the machine or displaying their execution through a simulation. The simulator is used to help students understand the machine’s architecture and how programs are internally executed. Over the simulator a small kernel is added to manage a set of programs concurrently executed. This kernel gives an idea to the students of how the operating system is scheduling different programs at different types of priorities. This tool is a part of a project that aims to have an entire environment in Arabic used for teaching several programming languages related courses.