A Proposed Framework for Visualization to Teach Computer Science

Computer programming is considered a very difficult course by many computer science students. The reasons for the difficulties include cognitive load involved in programming, different learning styles of students, instructional methodology and the choice of the programming languages. To reduce the difficulties the following have been tried: pair programming, program visualization, different learning styles etc. However, these efforts have produced limited success. This paper reviews the problem and proposes a framework to help students overcome the difficulties involved.

Authors:

• Muhammed Yousoof
• Mohd Sapiyan
• Khaja Kamaluddin

Keywords:

• Cognitive Load
• Instructional Models
• LearningStyles
• Program Visualization.

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