Software Visualization: Programming as a Multimedia ExperienceJohn Stasko This book describes the history of SV, techniques and frameworks for its construction, its use in education and program debugging, and recent attempts to evaluate its effectiveness. Foreword by Jim Foley In the past decade, high quality interfaces have become standard in a growing number of areas such as games and CD-ROM-based encyclopedias. Yet the overwhelming majority of programmers edit their code using a single font within a single window and view code execution via the hand insertion of print statements.Software Visualization (SV) redresses this imbalance by using typography, graphics, and animation techniques to show program code, data, and control flow. This book describes the history of SV, techniques and frameworks for its construction, its use in education and program debugging, and recent attempts to evaluate its effectiveness. In making programming a multimedia experience, SV leaves programmers and computer science researchers free to explore more interesting issues and to tackle more challenging problems. Contributors |
Contents
The Early History of Software Visualization | 29 |
What to draw? How | 43 |
Fundamental Techniques for Algorithm | 44 |
Visualizing Graph Models of Software | 63 |
Smooth Continuous Animation | 103 |
Algorithm Animation Using Interactive | 119 |
Program Auralization | 137 |
How | 153 |
Visualization of Dynamics in Real World | 293 |
Maintenance of Large Systems | 315 |
Visualizing ObjectOriented Software | 329 |
Visualization for Parallel Performance | 347 |
Visualization for Education | 367 |
Using Software to Teach Computer | 399 |
Animated Algorithms | 409 |
Evaluation | 417 |
Declarative Visualization | 173 |
Building Software Visualizations through | 187 |
Visualization for Specialized Domains | 205 |
Visualizing Knowledge Based Systems | 223 |
Visualizing Concurrent Programs | 237 |
Visualization for Software Engineering | 257 |
A Reversible Animated Source | 277 |
A Principled Approach to the Evaluation | 439 |
Cognitive Questions in Software | 453 |
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Contributors | 523 |
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