JSAV: The JavaScript algorithm visualization library

Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 159-164

  Karavirta, Ville ^a   Shaffer, Clifford A ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active electronic textbooks; Algorithm animation; Data structure and algorithm visualizations; HTML5; Hypertextbook; Interactive courseware; JSAV

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA STRUCTURES; DISTANCE EDUCATION; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; HTML; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; STUDENTS; VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM ANIMATION; ALGORITHM VISUALIZATION; COURSEWARE; ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOKS; HTML5; HYPERTEXTBOOK; JSAV;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84881144163     PISSN: 1942647X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2462476.2462487     Document Type: Conference Paper

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