The Jeliot
2000 program animation system:
Ronit Ben-Bassat Levy, Mordechai Ben-Ari, Pekka A. Uronen (2003), Computers
& Education 40 (1), 15–21.
Jeliot 2000 is a program animation system intended
for teaching introductory computer science to high school students.
A program animation system is a system that displays a dynamic graphical
representation of the execution of a program. The goal is to help novices
understand basic concepts of algorithms and programming like assignment,
I/O and control flow, whose dynamic aspects are not easily grasped just
by looking at the static representation of an algorithm in a programming
language. The paper describes the design and implementation of Jeliot
2000 and an experiment in its use in a year-long course. The experiment
showed that animation provides a vocabulary and a concrete model that
can improve the learning of students who would otherwise have difficulty
with abstract computer-science concepts.
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