An educational tool for visualizing students' program tracing processes

Abstract Program tracing is an important skill for programming learning, but novice programmers' tracing abilities are poor. This study designs a system to enable students to exercise program tracing and make students' program tracing processes visible to help teachers indicate students' errors in tracing execution flow, variable values, or I/O display. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 21: 432–438, 2013