A preliminary empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of a finite state automation animator

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 157-161

  Grinder, Michael T ^a  

^a MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Evaluation; Theory of Computation; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PERFORMANCE; STUDENTS; VISUALIZATION;

EXPERIMENTATION; FINITE STATE AUTOMATON ANIMATOR;

FINITE AUTOMATA;

EID: 0037673578     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/792548.611958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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