An approach to effortless construction of program animations
- 作者：J. Á ; ngel Velá ; zquez-Iturbide ; Cristó ; bal Pareja-Flores ; Jaime Urquiza-Fuentes
- 关键词：Authoring tools and methods ; Evaluation of CAL systems ; Improving classroom teaching ; Interactive learning environments ; Programming and programming languages
- 刊名：Computers and Education
- 出版年：2008
- 期刊代码：34_03601315
- 类别：cp
- 出版时间：January 2008
- 卷：50
- 期：1
- 页码：179-192
- 文件大小：1245 K
摘要
Program animation systems have not been as widely adopted by computer science educators as we might expect from the firm belief that they can help in enhancing computer science education. One of the most notable obstacles to their adoption is the considerable effort that the production of program animations represents for the instructor. We present here an approach to reduce such a workload based on the automatic generation of visualizations and animations. The user may customize them in a user-friendly way to construct more expressive program animations. These operations are carried out by means of a user-friendly manipulation based on the metaphor of office documents. We have applied this approach to the functional paradigm by extending the WinHIPE programming environment. Finally, we report on the successful results of an evaluation performed to measure its ease of use.