Experimental Evaluation of a Program Visualisation Tool for Use in Computer Science Education

This paper presents an experimental evaluation of a program visualisation tool. Computer science students in an introductory object oriented programming course in Java were asked to respond to a series of questions regarding concepts common to the writing and debugging of code at a novice level. Statistical analysis of data collected from this experiment revealed that a diagrammatic representation can significantly improve the novice understanding of program code. .

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: APVIS
• Authors: Kathryn Kasmarik, Joe Thurbon
• Keywords: APVIS 2003, APVIS 2007, Computer Science Students, Object Oriented Programming, Program Visualisation Tool