An Eclipse Plug-in for SVG Animations in an Educational System for Programming

Authors:
Naoki Yanagisawa;Kenichi Takai;Koji Kagawa;Hiroyuki Tarumi
Affiliations:
OEC, Japan;Dynax Takamatsu, Japan;RISE, Kagawa University, Japan, kagawa@eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp;RISE, Kagawa University, Japan, kagawa@eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Towards Sustainable and Scalable Educational Innovations Informed by the Learning Sciences: Sharing Good Practices of Research, Experimentation and Innovation
Year:
2005

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Abstract

There are many educational Web-based systems for programming. Web-based systems have several advantages in assisting learners by collecting various forms of information on the server side. However, the client-side components of Web-based systems are difficult to design and implement and therefore tend to be poor compared to the server side programs. This paper describes a Web-based system that helps learners write programs that create animations. It uses SVG as the graphics format and employs a plug-in for Eclipse as the client-side component. The plug-in can cooperate with the server-side system for downloading libraries and template programs, and for submitting animations to the bulletin board system for SVG animations.