Paper Info
Title
Codechella: Multi-user program visualizations for real-time tutoring and collaborative learning
Abstract
An effective way to learn computer programming is to sit side-by-side in front of the same computer with a tutor or peer, write code together, and then discuss what happens as the code executes. To bring this kind of in-person interaction to an online setting, we have developed Codechella, a multi-user Web-based program visualization system that enables multiple people to collaboratively write code together, explore an automatically-generated visualization of its execution state using multiple mouse cursors, and chat via an embedded text box. In nine months of live deployment on an educational website - www.pythontutor.com -people from 296 cities across 40 countries participated in 299 Codechella sessions for both tutoring and collaborative learning. 57% of sessions connected participants from different cities, and 12% from different countries. Participants actively engaged with the program visualizations while chatting, showed affective exchanges such as encouragement and banter, and indicated signs of learning at the lower three levels of Bloom's taxonomy: remembering, understanding, and applying knowledge.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/VLHCC.2015.7357201
2015 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
program visualization,collaborative visualization,CS education
TUTOR,World Wide Web,Collaborative learning,Software deployment,Information visualization,Computer science,Visualization,Text box,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,Computer programming,Multi-user
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.55
20
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Philip Guo1452.90
Jeffery White2161.34
Renan Zanelatto3150.99