What you see is what you code: A radically dynamic algorithm visualization development model for novice learners

Proceedings - 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 163-170

  Hundhausen, Christopher D ^a   Brown, Jonathan Lee ^a  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER VISION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ERROR CORRECTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ACTIVE LEARNING; ALGORITHM CODES; PEDAGOGICAL ALGORITHMS; VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746537735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2005.72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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