Testers and visualizers for teaching data structures

Authors:
Ryan S. Baker;Michael Boilen;Michael T. Goodrich;Roberto Tamassia;B. Aaron Stibel
Affiliations:
Dept. Comput. Sci., Brown Univ.;Dept. Comput. Sci., Brown Univ.;Dept. Comput. Sci., Johns Hopkins Univ.;Dept. Comput. Sci., Brown Univ.;Dept. Comput. Sci., Johns Hopkins Univ.
Venue:
SIGCSE '99 The proceedings of the thirtieth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1999

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Abstract

We present two tools to support the teaching of data structures and algorithms: Visualizers, which provide interactive visualizations of user-written data structures, and Testers, which check the functionality of user-written data structures. We outline a prototype implementation of visualizers and testers for data structures written in Java, and report on classroom use of testers and visualizers in an introductory Data Structures and Algorithms (CS2) course.