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Teaching a Complex Process: Insertion in Red Black Trees

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Red black trees (and all balanced trees) are an important concept in computer science with many applications. This paper describes a new approach using an example tracing tutor and our experince in using it to teach insertion in red black trees.

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Liew, C.W., Xhakaj, F. (2015). Teaching a Complex Process: Insertion in Red Black Trees. In: Conati, C., Heffernan, N., Mitrovic, A., Verdejo, M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9112. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9_95

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