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CSTutor: A Sketch-Based Tool for Visualizing Data Structures
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Buchanan, Sarah; Laviola, Joseph J., Jr. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2014
We present CSTutor, a sketch-based interface designed to help students understand data structures, specifically Linked Lists, Binary Search Trees, AVL Trees, and Heaps. CSTutor creates an environment that seamlessly combines a user's sketched diagram and code. In each of these data structure modes, the user can naturally sketch a data structure on…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Visual Aids, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Interfaces