Over the last few decades, computer programming has become an important field of
endeavor due to rapid development in the information sector. Despite the importance of …

Program visualizations help students understand the runtime behavior of other programs.
They are educational tools to complement lectures or replace inefficient static drawings. A …

Research software is often built as prototypes that never get widespread usage and are left
unmaintained after a few papers get published. To counteract this trend, we propose a …

Background Several attitude scales have been developed to measure students' attitudes
toward computer programming, including the prominent one developed by Cetin and Ozden …

To increase program comprehension and overcome learning obstacles of Object-Oriented
Programming (OOP), various visualization techniques have been adopted in educational …

This paper delves into the evolving relationship between humans and computers in the
realm of programming. Historically, programming has been a dialogue where humans …

Algorithm Visualisation (AV) tool is commonly used to learn data structures. However, since
that tool does not address technical details, some students may not know how to implement …

Teaching and learning programming, and especially Object-Oriented Programming (OOP),
is a complicated and challenging task. Students have to comprehend various OOP concepts …

There is hardly a university that does not offer a course in software engineering for computer
scientists. Due to the expanding complexity of software systems and rapidly changing …

Design patterns are tried and tested solutions that are used to tackle common object-
oriented programming (OOP) problems. However, many computer science students struggle …