https://github.com/kach/watchat

https://github.com/kach/watchat

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kach/watchat
• Owner: kach
• Created: 2024-03-05T14:08:14.000Z (8 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-11T03:27:33.000Z (8 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-03-11T04:32:31.673Z (8 months ago)
• Language: Racket
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• Watchers: 1
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# WatChat

This is the codebase for our project on a cognitively-inspired automatic explanation engine for JavaScript. You can read more in our [preliminary report](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05334) presented at PLATEAU 2024:

**WatChat: Explaining perplexing programs by debugging mental models**

_Kartik Chandra, Tzu-Mao Li Rachit Nigam, Joshua Tenenbaum and Jonathan Ragan-Kelley_

> Often, a good explanation for a program's unexpected behavior is a bug in the programmer's code. But sometimes, an even _better_ explanation is a bug in the programmer's _mental model_ of the language they use. Instead of merely debugging our current code ("giving the programmer a fish"), what if our tools could directly debug our mental models ("teaching the programmer to fish")?

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> In this paper, we apply ideas from computational cognitive science to do exactly that. Given a perplexing program, we infer potential misconceptions the programmer might have, and analyze them to provide succinct, useful explanations of the program's observed behavior. Our methods can even be inverted to _synthesize_ pedagogical example programs for diagnosing and correcting misconceptions in students.

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Contents:

- `js.rkt`, `js-test.rkt` - JS "misinterpreter" and tests

- `js-wat.rkt` - explanation solver

- `js-wedge.rkt`, `js-wedge-all.rkt` - concept inventory generator

- `watchat.rkt`, `index.html` - server for web front-end