A C Programming Learning Support System and Its Subjective Assessment

Author

Yu Yan ; Hiroto, Nakano ; Kohei, Hara ; Shota, Suga ; Aiguo He

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Syst., Univ. of Aizu, Hukushima, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

11-13 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

561

Lastpage

566

Abstract

Currently, learning support environment for C programming beginners is still very unsatisfactory. This paper introduces a program visualization based support system for C programming learning and instruction, PROVIT. It provides useful functions for students and instructors to use at lectures, excises or their homes. The feature of PROVIT is that it can show the execution of any program written by the students or instructors, by interesting GUI, so the internal behaviors of the running program which usually will be hidden from beginners´ eyes can be observed easily. PROVIT has been used in a special lecture for teaching high-school students and a subjective evaluation from the students was performed at an experiment. This paper also reports the result of the experiment.

Keywords

C language; computer aided instruction; computer science education; program visualisation; teaching; C programming beginners; C programming instruction; C programming learning support system; GUI; PROVIT; high-school students; learning support environment; program execution; program visualization based support system; running program; special lecture; subjective assessment; subjective evaluation; teaching; Arrays; Computers; Educational institutions; Image color analysis; Programming profession; Three-dimensional displays; C language; instruction; learning; program visualization; programming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology (CIT), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIT.2014.23

Filename

6984711