A study of the development of students' visualizations of program state during an elementary object-oriented programming course

ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Sajaniemi, Jorma ^a   Kuittinen, Marja ^a   Tikansalo, Taina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

CS1 2; Mental representation; Object oriented programming; Program state; Visualization

Indexed keywords

MENTAL REPRESENTATION; OBJECT IDENTIFICATION; PROGRAM STATE;

ANIMATION; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 42149155411     PISSN: 15314278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1316450.1316453     Document Type: Article

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