Using Roles of Variables to Enhance Novice's Debugging Work

Laakso, Mikko‐Jussi; Malmi, Lauri; Korhonen, Ari; Rajala, Teemu; Kaila, Erkki; Salakoski, Tapio

doi:10.28945/3229

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“…From the literature, a few tools have been developed for teaching/learning programming languages. Some of them adopt role of variable concept such as PlanAni [22] and ViLLE [23,24], others are not, such as OOP-ANIM [8] and Jeliot [25,26,27]. PlanAni and ViLLE tools are used for procedural programming understanding while OOP-ANIM and Jeliot are used for object oriented programming comprehension.…”

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An Interactive Animation Tool for Java Object Oriented Programming Understanding

Ahmed¹,

Amarif²

2019

IJPLA

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Java Language becomes the most common Object-Oriented Programming Language over the entire world. Students from Computer Sciences and Information Technology are struggling to lean Java concepts and programs on Java. That is because of the various difficulties in understanding Object Orientedconcepts especially by novice programmers. This research adopts the design of interactive animationtool named LearnOOP which includesan animatedvisual model that shows the role of an object within a Java program. The visual object reflects the attributes and behaviour of that object to enhance students' understanding. The interaction between the developed tool and students is conducted and the usability is measured using a questionnaire. The results show that the developed tool is more effective than using traditional teaching and positively impact learning. The results also have confirmed that LearnOOP tool is promising with respect to quality assurance, effectiveness and usability.

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An Interactive Animation Tool for Java Object Oriented Programming Understanding

Ahmed¹,

Amarif²

2019

IJPLA

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“…According to our currently search and based on what we found, a few tools have been developed for teaching/learning programming languages. Some of them adopt role of variable concept such as PlanAni [9] and ViLLE [10,11], others are not, such as OOP-ANIM [12] and Jeliot [13,14,15]. PlanAni and ViLLE tools are used for procedural programming understanding while OOP-ANIM and Jeliot are used for object oriented programming comprehension.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Effect of Visualizing Role of Variable in Object Oriented Programming Understanding

Amarif¹,

Ahmed²

2019

Computer Science &Amp; Information Technology(CS &Amp; IT)

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The role of any variable is interpreted as the required task or performance of it in any part of a program. This role contributes to the easy understanding of the program and thus formulates it clearly and unambiguously. Many novice programmers face various difficulties in understanding programming, especially Object Oriented Programming. This research adopts the design of a visualization tool which includes visual model that shows the role of the reference variable (an object) within a Java program to enhance comprehension understanding for novice programmers. The model enables them to interact and thus formulate an objectoriented program in an intuitive and clear way. Based on the actual experimentation, the effectiveness of this model is improved and the importance of this research in the field of object programming is demonstrated.

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“…Roles represent programming knowledge on a level higher than the simple programming language knowledge, which are always utilized by experts and experienced programmers (Sajaniemi & Prieto, 2005) and can be explicitly taught to the novices (Kohn, 2017). Studies have shown that roles of variables could improve novice code comprehension and debugging skills (Byckling & Sajaniemi, 2006;Sajaniemi & Kuittinen, 2005) and help students in building more general and abstract understanding of the program structures (Al- Barakati & Al-Aama, 2009; and the relation to problem domain concepts (Laakso et al, 2008). Teaching the concepts of roles of variables in the novice programmers learning can help them to understand the different methods of using variables in a program (Taherkhani & Malmi, 2013).…”

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Evaluating the Effectiveness Roles of Variables in the Novice Programmers Learning

Shi

Cui

Ping

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Journal of Educational Computing Research

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This research applies the roles of variables to the novice programmers in the C language programming. The results are evaluated using the Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO) taxonomy. The participants were divided into an experimental group and a control group. The students from the control group learned programming in the traditional case-based teaching method. The students in the experimental group learned programming by applying the role-based approach to the case-based teaching method. For the purposes of determining the effects of the role-based teaching, the SOLO taxonomy was used to evaluate the results of the participants' final paper-pencil test. The SOLO level of the code reading and code writing was graded according to the SOLO categories for program comprehension and construction. Data analyses show that (a) there was a higher level of performance and cognitive ability in the experimental group, (b) there were some positive and significant correlations between student's final examination scores and their SOLO level of the code reading and code writing, and (c) the SOLO level of the code writing and code reading was significantly related. These results suggest that the role of variable is effective on improving novice programming.

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Using Roles of Variables to Enhance Novice's Debugging Work

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An Interactive Animation Tool for Java Object Oriented Programming Understanding

An Interactive Animation Tool for Java Object Oriented Programming Understanding

The Effect of Visualizing Role of Variable in Object Oriented Programming Understanding

Evaluating the Effectiveness Roles of Variables in the Novice Programmers Learning

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