Visual representations of executing programs

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 126-148

  Reiss, Steven P ^a  

^a Brown Univerity   (United States)

Author keywords

Execution visualization; Programming environments; Software tools; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847415889     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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