This article is a survey of program visualization systems intended for teaching beginners
about the runtime behavior of computer programs. Our focus is on generic systems that are …

This research is focused on how to support students' acquisition of program construction
skills through worked examples. Although examples have been consistently proven to be …

Many researchers have proposed program visualization tools for memory management.
Examples include state-of-the-art tools for C languages such as SeeC and Python Tutor …

In recent years, many tools have been proposed to reduce programming learning difficulties
felt by many students. Our group has contributed to this effort through the development of …

Understanding object-oriented programming (OOP) and its underlying concepts is essential
in any computing-related field. However, learning the OOP concepts is often daunting for …

As dificuldades existentes na aprendizagem da programação sugerem a existência de uma
diversidade de défices em diferentes níveis, às quais os métodos de ensino e …

Teaching programming at university beginner's level has some specific problems like wide
diversity of student's previous knowledge, fear of programming, problems with programming …

Program visualization and animation has traditionally been done at the level of the
programming language and its implementation in a computer. However, novices do not …

This paper introduces a novel software visualisation and animation method, manifested in a
prototype software tool-AnimArch. The introduced method is based on model fusion of static …

Novice programmers often struggle to build accurate mental models of computation, which
hinders their ability to understand, debug, and optimize programs. This paper presents …