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A Study of the Development of Students' Visualizations of Program State during an Elementary Object-Oriented Programming Course
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Sajaniemi, Jorma; Kuittinen, Marja; Tikansalo, Taina – Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, 2008
Students' understanding of object-oriented (OO) program execution was studied by asking students to draw a picture of a program state at a specific moment. Students were given minimal instructions on what to include in their drawings in order to see what they considered to be central concepts and relationships in program execution. Three drawing…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Programming, Student Development, Misconceptions