Experiences in using animations in introductory computer science lectures (original) (raw)

Algorithm animation has received much interest over the last few years. In this paper, we discuss the experiences gained in integrating animations into introductory computer science courses with large audiences of more than 200 students. After providing a short introduction to the animation tool we developed, we describe why and how we used animations in our lectures and present some example animations. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.