Automatic Generation of Algorithm Visualizations for Lectures
Ville Karavirta, Guido Rößling, Otto Seppälä · Aaltodoc (Aalto University) · 2009
Algorithm animations and visualizations (AVs) aim at making program code or algorithms more understandable by providing a view of the code on a higher level of abstraction.Despite the demonstrated benefits, algorithm visualizations have not been widely adopted in teaching.Presentation tools such as Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice.orgImpress are often used by instructors, and algorithm animations are added to the lecture slides.The generation of animations with these tools can be awkward and time-consuming.In this paper, we present a set of tools that allows easy generation of algorithm animations to be used in lecture slides.