From Idea to Classroom in Days: Using "Vibe Coding" to Create a Programming Process Visualizer from IDE Activity Logs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24757v1
• Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 14:52:12 GMT
• Title: From Idea to Classroom in Days: Using "Vibe Coding" to Create a Programming Process Visualizer from IDE Activity Logs
• Abstract summary: This paper reports on the rapid development and classroom deployment of a Thonny log visualizer built using AI-assisted vibe coding''<n>We developed a web application that analyzes log files generated by Thonny and produces interpretable views of students' programming processes.
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• Abstract: This paper reports on the rapid development and classroom deployment of a Thonny log visualizer built using AI-assisted ``vibe coding'' to make students' programming processes easily visible to teachers. We developed a web application that analyzes log files generated by Thonny (an IDE for Python) and produces interpretable views of students' programming processes. Teachers can upload a log, a ZIP archive, or a folder containing logs for a group or the course; the system parses all logs, generates results per student, and provides student-by-student navigation for reviewing cases. Each student's view includes an interactive activity timeline, a compact session summary, a code-size graph, a programming-process replay, and more. These views support teacher decision-making by enabling the identification of learning-support situations and flagging sessions for academic-integrity clarification. The tool was initially evaluated using logs from previous courses; a February 2026 pilot in an introductory programming course with 160 participants provided teachers' feedback and informed iterative usability improvements.

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