A program visualization tool for program comprehension

At the beginning stage of programming education, comprehending program logics plays a more important role than capturing knowledge of a specific program language. In this paper, the authors describe an outline of a visualization tool that animates the actions of a program by adding simple annotations to the variables defined in a program, and show several ideas to improve the usability of this tool. The authors also discuss the effectiveness of program visualization.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: VL
• Authors: Mikio Ohki, Yasuo Hosaka
• Keywords: Beginning Stage, Languages, Program Logics, Specific Program Language, VL 2003