Integrating test generation functionality into the Teaching Machine environment

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 224, Issue C, 2009, Pages 115-124

  Bruce Lockhart, Michael ^a   Crescenzi, Pilu ^b   Norvell, Theodore ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algorithms and data structure; program animation; self assessment; visualization

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; DATA VISUALIZATION; FILE ORGANIZATION; TEACHING; VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS AND DATA STRUCTURE; MACHINE ENVIRONMENTS; PLUG INS; PROGRAM ANIMATION; SELF-ASSESSMENT; TEST GENERATIONS; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES; VISUALIZERS;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 58149204165     PISSN: 15710661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2008.12.055     Document Type: Article

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