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Perspectives on Program Animation with Jeliot

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The Jeliot familyconsists of three program animation environments which are based on a self-animation paradigm. A student can visualize her Java code without inserting additional calls to animation primitives. The design of the animation environments has been guided bythe analysis of feedback from high school and university students. Evaluation studies indicate the benefit of dedicated animation environments for different user groups like novice programmers. Based on the results of these studies, we present plans for a future work on Jeliot.

The work was supported bythe National TechnologyAgency, Finland.

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  1. Department of Science Teaching, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel

    Mordechai Ben-Ari

  2. Department of Computer Science, Universityof Joensuu, P.O. Box 111, FIN-80101, Joensuu, Finland

    Niko Myller & Erkki Sutinen

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Helsinki Universityof Technology, P.O. Box 5400, FIN-02015, HUT, Finland

    Jorma Tarhio

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    Stephan Diehl

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Ben-Ari, M., Myller, N., Sutinen, E., Tarhio, J. (2002). Perspectives on Program Animation with Jeliot. In: Diehl, S. (eds) Software Visualization. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2269. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45875-1_3

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