Designing educationally effective algorithm visualizations

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 291-317

  Hansen, Steven ^a   Narayanan, N Hari ^b   Hegarty, Mary ^c  

^a Maxwell Gunter AFB   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Animation; Empirical evaluation; Learning; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036623748     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvlc.2002.0236     Document Type: Article

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