An approach to effortless construction of program animations

Computers and Education

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 179-192

  Velázquez Iturbide, J Ángel ^a   Pareja Flores, Cristóbal ^b   Urquiza Fuentes, Jaime ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Authoring tools and methods; Evaluation of CAL systems; Improving classroom teaching; Interactive learning environments; Programming and programming languages

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USER INTERFACES;

AUTHORING TOOLS; CAL SYSTEMS; CLASSROOM TEACHING; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; PROGRAM ANIMATIONS;

ANIMATION;

EID: 35148859472     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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