Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!almstrum From: almstrum@cs.utexas.edu (Vicki L. Almstrum) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.lang.visual Subject: Re: Literature about visualization of data structures Keywords: visualization Message-ID: <1200@gorath.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 6 Mar 90 14:32:32 GMT References: <1000@hfserver.hfnet.bt.co.uk> Followup-To: comp.cog-eng Distribution: comp Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 21 In article <1000@hfserver.hfnet.bt.co.uk> smf@hfserver.hfnet.bt.co.uk (SMF) writes: >I tried to reply by mail but was unable to get through so I am sending this >message as posting on the noticeboard. I also tried replying by mail and was unsuccessful. I am currently doing a pilot experiment with a programming envirionment called Genie. It has been developed as Carnegie Mellon University and is in use at several beta sites for teaching beginning computer science. Genie is a structure editor based system, and affords several views of the program. In my experiment, I'm going to formulate hypotheses about how and if the data visualization feature aids student understanding, debugging, and enhancement of a mid-sized Pascal program. This will lay the groundwork for future experiments. I have not yet synthesized the references I've gathered. However, if you contact me directly I will be happy to chat with you more about what I've turned up so far. -- Vicki Almstrum almstrum@cs.utexas.edu