What do I do?

• Develop or use visualization, interaction, or animation software tools for computer science courses

  Tools created

• Develop lectures, tutorials and other class material that use these tools

Visualization and Animation in Lectures

• Introduction of new concept

  picture in their mind as you explain

• Example after explanation

• Interaction: Problem Solving

  use tool with class to solve problem

  what will happen next?

• Analysis

  same problem with different inputs, what happens?

• Demo tools for hw use

Visualization and Animation Outside of Lecture

• recreation of in-class explanations

• experimentation

• study for tests

• programming

  aid in debugging programs

  fun

Levels of Animation Creation

• No programming experience

  High School, CPS 49S

  typed simple commands in file

• CPS 6 - First Computer Science Course

  Animation is automatically generated

  focus on learning programming language, not animation

• CPS 100 - Second Computer Science Course

  generate their own animations from programs

• CPS 140 - Advanced Computer Science Course

  Use software to understand theoretical concepts and to experiment with proofs

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Susan H. Rodger

Last modified: Sat Feb 17 18:08:12 EST 2001