Combining program visualization with programming workspace to assist students for completing programming laboratory task
Numerous Program Visualization tools (PVs) have been developed for assisting novice students to understand their source code further. However, none of them are practical to be used in the context of completing programming laboratory task; students are required to keep switching between PV and progra...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/124218 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/124218 https://dx.doi.org/10.3926/jotse.420 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Software visualization Programming (Computers) Teaching--Aids and devices Educational innovation Information display systems Computer science--Study and teaching Educational tool Program visualization Programming workspace Programming Computer science education Visualització (Informàtica) Material didàctic Ensenyament -- Innovacions Informàtica -- Ensenyament -- Investigació Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Metodologies docents |
| Sumario: | Numerous Program Visualization tools (PVs) have been developed for assisting novice students to understand their source code further. However, none of them are practical to be used in the context of completing programming laboratory task; students are required to keep switching between PV and programming workspace since PV’s features are considerably limited for developing programming solution from scratch. This paper combines PV with programming workspace to handle such issue. Resulted tool (which is named PITON) has 13 features extracted from PythonTutor (a program visualization tool), PyCharm (a programming workspace), and student’s feedbacks about PythonTutor. According to think-aloud and user study, PITON is more practical to be used than a combination of PythonTutor and PyCharm. Further, its features are considerably helpful; students rated these features as useful and frequently used |
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