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PAAMS 2017: Highlights of Practical Applications of Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems pp 386–397Cite as

Survey of Software Visualization Systems to Teach Message-Passing Concurrency in Secondary School

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In this paper, we compare 27 software visualization systems according to 8 criteria that are important to create an introduction to programming course based upon message passing concurrency.

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Libert, C., Vanhoof, W. (2017). Survey of Software Visualization Systems to Teach Message-Passing Concurrency in Secondary School. In: Bajo, J., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 722. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60285-1_33

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