Increase of the functionalities related to the handling of events of the mouse and graphical elements in the Polkaw visualization system (Review)
Keywords:
tool; learning; visualization; data structuresAbstract
Given the importance the formation of professionals qualified in the area of informatics and computing sciences has for the development of modern society, it is necessary that the students solidly acquire the skills to solve in an optimum way complex problems, supported by the advantages of the informatics´ systems they have at hand. In this paper, an enhancement of a tool built for the learning support of the Introduction to Programming II subject is presented, the Program Visualization System SubC (SVP-SubC). It uses the PolkaW Visualization System to build animations. PolkaW does not supply a suitable graphic environment for the visualization of dynamic programs. It was shown that the inclusions of functionalities related to the handling of events of the mouse and that of graphical elements more suitable for the animation of the dynamics of the behavior of data structures in the execution of a program in SubC was feasible. These contributions are the main results of the investigation.
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