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Pilot Study of a Visualization Tool for Object Graphs and Concurrency via Shared Memory

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Filip Strömbäck,

Linda Mannila,

Mariam KamkarAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '21: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Concurrency and synchronization are two topics that are becoming increasingly important as multicore systems and distributed systems are becoming the norm. However, prior research shows that students struggle with these topics, perhaps partially since they require a good understanding of language semantics and abstract reasoning. To aid students' learning, we developed Progvis to visualize these concepts and let students experiment with them. We also conducted a pilot study of whether the tool helps students to solve synchronization problems, and the results are promising.

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Juha Sorva. 2012. Visual Program Simulation in Introductory Programming Education. Ph.D. Dissertation. Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2012/isbn9789526046266/

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Filip Strömbäck, Linda Mannila, Mikael Asplund, and Mariam Kamkar. 2019. A Student's View of Concurrency - A Study of Common Mistakes in Introductory Courses on Concurrency. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (Toronto ON, Canada) (ICER '19). ACM, 229--237. https://doi.org/10.1145/3291279.3339415

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SIGCSE '21: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

March 2021

1454 pages

ISBN:9781450380621

DOI:10.1145/3408877

General Chairs:
Mark Sherriff
University of Virginia, USA
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Laurence D. Merkle
Air Force Institute of Technology, USA
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Program Chairs:
Pamela Cutter
Kalamazoo College, USA
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Alvaro Monge
California State University, Long Beach, USA
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Judithe Sheard
Monash University, Australia

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