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Program animation in jeliot 3

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Andrés Moreno,

Niko Myller,

Mordechai Ben-Ari,

Erkki SutinenAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 36, Issue 3

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1026487.1008099

Published: 28 June 2004 Publication History

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Jeliot is a family of program animation systems [1]. It has been successfully used to improve the teaching of intro- ductory programming by supplying a concrete language in which to explain programming structures and concepts [2]. Jeliot 3 [4] retains the novice-oriented GUI and animation display of the previous version, Jeliot 2000. Both versions automatically visualize the execution of user-written Java programs.Jeliot 3 introduces a new kind of design in order to make the system extendable and to add new features [5]. The front-end of system has been replaced by the DynamicJava interpreter, which was instrumented to produce an intermediate code, MCode, describing the program's runtime trace. The MCode trace is then rendered by the graphics back-end. The previous version of Jeliot animated variables, expressions, I/O and static method calls. Jeliot 3 is also capable of animating concepts for object-oriented programming: objects, class inheritance, constructors, method calls, instance fields, and reference semantics of arrays and objects. Jeliot 3 is intended to be a simple tool to be used in different kinds of learning scenarios [3]. It can be used to show and teach the basics of programming during a lecture. The lecturer can explain different concepts and show their corresponding animations with Jeliot. Students may use Jeliot 3 by themselves after the lectures to complete and understand the follow-up assignments related to the concepts learned at the lectures. Jeliot 3 can be used as a tool in interactive laboratory sessions. The visual display of the program can be used to facilitate communications about the errors. It can also support virtual courses, as where Jeliot 3 provides a tool that can assist students when external help is not available. Jeliot 3 is available under the GPL for downloading at http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/jeliot/. We intend to form a community around Jeliot 3, where teachers, students and developers could propose ideas and solutions in order to im- prove Jeliot 3 and the teaching of programming. The forum is available on the website and open for anyone interested. There are also plans for further development, for example, a new tool called JeCo (Jeliot Collaborative) [3] aims to integrate Jeliot 3 into a co-authoring environment where students can develop and visualize their programs together.

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M. Ben-Ari, N. Myller, E. Sutinen, and J. Tarhio. Perspectives on Program Animation with Jeliot. In Software Visualization: International Seminar, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2269, pages 31--45, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, 2002.

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R. Ben-Bassat Levy, M. Ben-Ari, and P. A. Uronen. The Jeliot 2000 Program Animation System. Computers & Education, 40(1):1--15, 2003.

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N. Myller. The Fundamental Design Issues of Jeliot 3. Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland, 2004. ftp://cs.joensuu.fi/pub/Theses/2004_MSc_Myller_Niko.pdf.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 36, Issue 3

September 2004

280 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1026487

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ITiCSE '04: Proceedings of the 9th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
June 2004
296 pages
ISBN:1581138369
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