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Effortless Construction and Management of Program Animations on the Web

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Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2005 (ICWL 2005)

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We describe an extension of a programming environment to generate web-based program animations. Emphasis is put on requiring little effort from the instructor that handles the system. User interaction is reduced to a minimum, mostly for customizing the animations. Both construction and maintenance are considered in order to guarantee low effort in an actual educational scenario. We describe several aspects of a program animation: the different kinds of information that compose it, its construction process, alternative graphical designs for web publishing, and its implementation as a package. In general, the instructor will wish to use the system to construct and handle a collection of animations for one or several courses. Therefore, we also consider the creation and management of collections of animations in a effortless way. Finally, we describe our experience as well as related work.

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  1. Departamento de Informática, Estadística y Telemática, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/ Tulipán s/n, 28933, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain

    Jaime Urquiza-Fuentes & J. Ángel Velázquez-Iturbide

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Durham, South Road, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK

    Rynson W. H. Lau

  2. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Qing Li

  3. Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, P.O. Box

    Ronnie Cheung

  4. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Wenyin Liu

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Urquiza-Fuentes, J., Velázquez-Iturbide, J.Á. (2005). Effortless Construction and Management of Program Animations on the Web. In: Lau, R.W.H., Li, Q., Cheung, R., Liu, W. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2005. ICWL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3583. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11528043_16

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