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Style Avatar: a visualization system for teaching C coding style

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We present an automated visualization system, called Style Avatar, which checks the coding style of source codes and visualizes the coding style score using facial expression. Our system shows the facial expressions of an artificial character, say an avatar, according to the coding style score of the source code. According to the experimental results, the style-violation ratio of student programs when the students are taught using the Style Avatar was reduced above 30% than that without it.

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      SAC '11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
      March 2011
      1868 pages
      ISBN:9781450301138
      DOI:10.1145/1982185

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