BlueJ Visual Debugger for Learning the Execution of Object-Oriented Programs?

Autor/inn/en	Bennedsen, Jens; Schulte, Carsten
Titel	BlueJ Visual Debugger for Learning the Execution of Object-Oriented Programs?
Quelle	In: ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 10 (2010) 2, Artikel 8 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1946-6226
DOI	10.1145/1789934.1789938
Schlagwörter	Programming; Introductory Courses; Control Groups; Experimental Groups; Pretests Posttests; Learning Strategies; Foreign Countries; Computer Science Education; Computer Software; Visualization; Instructional Effectiveness; Animation; Mathematics; Multimedia Materials; Computer Software Evaluation; Teaching Methods; Troubleshooting; College Instruction; College Students; Denmark + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Programmierung; Einführungskurs; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Ausland; Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Visualisation; Visualisierung; Unterrichtserfolg; Mathematik; Softwareanalyse; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Störfall; Hochschullehre; Collegestudent; Dänemark
Abstract	This article reports on an experiment undertaken in order to evaluate the effect of a program visualization tool for helping students to better understand the dynamics of object-oriented programs. The concrete tool used was BlueJ's debugger and object inspector. The study was done as a control-group experiment in an introductory programming course. The results of the experiment show that the students who used BlueJ's debugger did not perform statistically significantly better than the students not using it; both groups profited about the same amount from the exercises given in the experiment. We discuss possible reasons for and implications of this result. (Contains 1 footnote and 8 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10