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Enhancing Visualizations in Pedagogical Debuggers by Leveraging on Code Analysis

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Koli Calling '18: Proceedings of the 18th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3279720.3279732

Published: 22 November 2018 Publication History

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PandionJ is a pedagogical debugger that provides users with rich visualizations of program state that resemble teacher-drawn illustrations. Its design was driven by a study that investigated how programming teachers illustrate variables, transposing illustration patterns into the tool. These illustrations require static analysis of the source code to infer relationships between variables. We describe the innovative features of the tool regarding how it addresses program variables. The tool was adopted in an introductory programming course, and the pass rates of the first course edition using it were significantly higher when compared to the three previous editions.

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Index Terms

Enhancing Visualizations in Pedagogical Debuggers by Leveraging on Code Analysis
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Interactive learning environments
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        CS1

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DOI:10.1145/3279720

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Yang SBaird MO’Rourke EBrennan KSchneider B(2024)Decoding Debugging Instruction: A Systematic Literature Review of Debugging InterventionsACM Transactions on Computing Education10.1145/369065224:4(1-44)Online publication date: 5-Sep-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3690652
Jadhav PDeore SAute SGaikwad RBarphe SMeshram E(2024)“Questomatic”: Automated Question Formulation System2024 4th International Conference on Sustainable Expert Systems (ICSES)10.1109/ICSES63445.2024.10763124(577-581)Online publication date: 15-Oct-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSES63445.2024.10763124
Lehtinen TSantos ASorva J(2021)Let’s Ask Students About Their Programs, Automatically2021 IEEE/ACM 29th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)10.1109/ICPC52881.2021.00054(467-475)Online publication date: May-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC52881.2021.00054

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