Adapting the Tracing Method to Java
Tom M. Warms, Kavon Farvardin · 2025
The tracing method and its software implementation RandomLinearizer are proving to be effective tools in the teaching of C++.This paper discusses the issues involved in adapting the method to the Java programming language, and presents several typical Java programs that are presented to beginning students, and the corresponding traces.It then speculates on the usefulness of tracing to students of Java.