Year: 2005
Type: dissertation
Abstract: While graphical representations have been incorporated into program debugging tools, auditory displays have rarely been tried.Nevertheless, sound is inherently a temporal medium rather than a spatial one, so it is logical to explore the possibilities of representing the temporal evolution of program state in patterns of sound.In this thesis, I consider the use of enhanced debugging environments supporting auditory representations of program state to improve the debugging performance of students in introductory computer programming classes.A pilot study of novice programmer debugging behavior and common logic errors is discussed.I describe a prototype auralizing debugger, and propose an experiment to see whether the sort of auralizations that can be generated with the tool are understandable to novice programmers.
Author: Yan Chen
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Science Applications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2265679122