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Using Interactive Card Animations for Understanding of the Essential Aspects of Non-recursive Sorting Algorithms

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Proceedings of the 2015 Federated Conference on Software Development and Object Technologies (SDOT 2015)

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Animations can help students to comprehend computer science algorithms. Previous experiments, mentioned in this paper, show that interactivity is very important in educational animations. In this contribution we also describe three categories of algorithm animations with different views, and we introduce our interactive card animations that belong to the first group (animations with conceptual views). These card animations of sorting algorithms were used in our experiment, where first-year computer science students were asked to fill out a pre-test, use the animations, and fill out a post-test. In the third part of the paper we discuss the obtained results, which proved that the interactive card animations can help students to understand the essential aspects of different sorting algorithms. Finally, we draw conclusions and introduce our future plans.

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The contribution was published thanks to grant KEGA, 010UJS-4/2014 Modeling, simulation and animation in education (Modelovanie, simulácia a animácia vo vzdelávaní).

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Informatics, J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia

    Ladislav Végh & Ondrej Takáč

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  1. Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia

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    Jozef Kostolny

  3. Institute of Metrology, Electronics, Zielona Góra, Poland

    Tomasz Gratkowski

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Végh, L., Takáč, O. (2017). Using Interactive Card Animations for Understanding of the Essential Aspects of Non-recursive Sorting Algorithms. In: Janech, J., Kostolny, J., Gratkowski, T. (eds) Proceedings of the 2015 Federated Conference on Software Development and Object Technologies. SDOT 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 511. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46535-7_25

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