An experiment on short-term effects of animated versus static visualization of operations on program perception

ICER 2006 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Computing Education Research Workshop

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 7-16

  Nevalainen, Seppo ^a   Sajaniemi, Jorma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Mental models; Program visualization; Programming education; Programming knowledge; Roles of variables

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATIC ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

MENTAL MODELS; PROGRAM VISUALIZATION; PROGRAMMING EDUCATION; PROGRAMMING KNOWLEDGE; ROLES OF VARIABLES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 34247352476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1151588.1151591     Document Type: Conference Paper

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