A testbed for pedagogical requirements in algorithm visualizations

Proceedings of the Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiSCE)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 96-100

  Rößling, Guido ^a   Naps, Thomas L ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm Visualization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANIMATION; EDUCATION; WORLD WIDE WEB; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA STRUCTURES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HTML; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; VISUALIZATION; WEBSITES;

ALGORITHM VISUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION;

ALGORITHM ANIMATIONS; ALGORITHM VISUALIZATIONS (AG); EFFECTIVENESS; SCRIPTING LANGUAGES;

EID: 4944230080     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/637610.544446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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