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Metaphor-based animation of OO programs

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Program visualization and animation have traditionally been done at the level of programming language implementation, or by using some formal graphical notation, e.g., UML; both of which are unfamiliar to novices. We present a metaphor approach to animating object-oriented programs with the goal to provide novices with visually rich visualizations that can develop and consolidate a valid mental model of object-orientation. For this purpose, we introduce new metaphors for such concepts as class, object, object instantiation, method invocation, parameter passing, and object reference. These metaphors are used in a system that provides the animation of a few, carefully selected OO programs for educational use.

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  • (2008)A study of the development of students' visualizations of program state during an elementary object-oriented programming courseJournal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC)10.1145/1316450.13164537:4(1-31)Online publication date: 9-Jan-2008
  • (2007)A study of the development of students' visualizations of program state during an elementary object-oriented programming courseProceedings of the third international workshop on Computing education research10.1145/1288580.1288582(1-16)Online publication date: 15-Sep-2007

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cover image ACM Conferences
SoftVis '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Software visualization
September 2006
199 pages
ISBN:1595934642
DOI:10.1145/1148493
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Published: 04 September 2006

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  1. metaphor
  2. object-oriented programming
  3. program animation

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  • (2008)A study of the development of students' visualizations of program state during an elementary object-oriented programming courseJournal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC)10.1145/1316450.13164537:4(1-31)Online publication date: 9-Jan-2008
  • (2007)A study of the development of students' visualizations of program state during an elementary object-oriented programming courseProceedings of the third international workshop on Computing education research10.1145/1288580.1288582(1-16)Online publication date: 15-Sep-2007

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