Dancing Hamsters and Marble Statues: Characterizing Student Visualizations of Algorithms

Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 95-104

  Hübscher Younger, Teresa ^a   Narayanan, N Hari ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Empirical studies; Learning; Multimedia; Representation; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0141894906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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