Development of an Ontology of C# Language for Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Abstract

C# is one of the popular programming languages which is taught in many institutes of computer science and software engineering. The traditional way of teaching and learning C# language in these institutes is a challenging task for both teachers and students. Therefore, an IIntelligent TTutoring SSystems (ITS) changes the traditional way of teaching and learning through the use of artificial intelligence techniques. The ITSs use ontologies for the representation of domain knowledge being taught to students. The aim of this research is to build an ontology that representss the domain knowledge of C# language that may be used as a domain module in an ITS. We build an ontology of C# language by using the phases of the ontology development methodology. The phases used in the development of ontology are specification, conceptualization, formalization, and implementation. By using these phases, we identified the concepts of C# language, arranged these concepts in the class hierarchy and defined relationships between these concepts to implement a computable model of ontology by using in Protégé software. In the end, we validated the developed ontology by using SPARQL queries.