Effectiveness of integrating program visualizations to a programming course

Authors:
Essi Lahtinen;Tuukka Ahoniemi;Anniina Salo
Affiliations:
Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland;Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland;Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
Venue:
Koli Calling '07 Proceedings of the Seventh Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research - Volume 88
Year:
2007

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Abstract

To gain optimal benefits from program visualizations, their use in courses should be consistent. Instead of just covering all the topics they should also cover all the different learning situations and cognitive levels relating to the subject. We have integrated visualizations accordingly to our programming course and present some results about their usage in this paper. Our students showed a significant interest in using the visualization tool voluntarily.