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@Article{Stern:1999:SMC,
  author =       "Linda Stern and Harald S{\o}ndergaard and Lee Naish",
  title =        "A strategy for managing content complexity in
                 algorithm animation",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "31",
  number =       "3",
  pages =        "127--130",
  month =        sep,
  year =         "1999",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/384267.305891",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sat Nov 17 16:56:39 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1990.bib",
  abstract =     "Computer animation is an excellent medium for
                 capturing the dynamic nature of data structure
                 manipulations, and can be used to advantage in the
                 teaching of algorithms and data structures. A major
                 educational issue is the necessity of providing a means
                 for the student to manage the complexity of the
                 material. We have addressed this issue in a multimedia
                 teaching tool called ``Algorithms in Action'' by
                 allowing students to view an algorithm at varying
                 levels of detail. Starting with a high level pseudocode
                 description of the algorithm, with accompanying high
                 level animation and textual explanation, students can
                 expand sections of the pseudocode to expose more
                 detail. Animation and explanation are controlled in a
                 coordinated fashion, becoming correspondingly more
                 detailed as the pseudocode is expanded. The tool also
                 supports {\tt dofferem}, pdes. corresponding to
                 different stages in the learning process. Student
                 feedback suggests that the availability of multiple
                 levels detail and the facility for the user to control
                 the level of detail being viewed is an effective way to
                 manage content complexity.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "SIGCSE Bulletin (ACM Special Interest Group on
                 Computer Science Education)",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J688",
}

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