ENHANCING CONTROL FLOW COMPREHENSION USING ZOOM VISUAL FLOW (ZViF) TECHNIQUE TO REPRESENT CONTROL STRUCTURES
| dc.contributor.author | KADAR, ROZITA | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-26T06:53:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-01-26T06:53:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-03 | |
| dc.description.abstract | When novice users learn programming, they have to comprehend a lot of things related to programming. Many techniques and tools have been developed to help users to improve their program comprehension but most tools are unsuitable for novices. Some tools are not user friendly, some designs are just for expert programmers and some Integrated Development Environment (IDE) are very simple and fail to expose users to the real world environment. These hinder the learning process and may become obstacles to users who have no programming background. The scope of the study is on visualization technique to represent control structures for novice users. The main goal of this work is to give some insights on how to improve visual presentation method in program editor or an IDE. This study attempts to improve control flow comprehension by using Zoom Visual Flow (ZViF) technique that represents source code in graphical view. Two lab experiments and a comparative study were conducted to determine the effectiveness of the technique. The result shows that users prefer the proposed technique that helps to improve control flow comprehension among novices much better than Control Structured Diagrams (CSD) technique and text-based IDE. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1695 | |
| dc.subject | ENHANCING CONTROL FLOW COMPREHENSION USING ZOOM VISUAL FLOW | en_US |
| dc.title | ENHANCING CONTROL FLOW COMPREHENSION USING ZOOM VISUAL FLOW (ZViF) TECHNIQUE TO REPRESENT CONTROL STRUCTURES | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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