Novis: A notional machine implementation for teaching introductory programming

Michael Berry; Michael Kölling

doi:10.1109/LaTiCE.2016.5

Novis: A notional machine implementation for teaching introductory programming

Michael Berry, Michael Kölling

Informatics

University of Kent

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Abstract

Comprehension of programming and programs is known to be a difficult task for many beginning students, with many computing courses showing significant drop out and failure rates. In this paper, we present a notional machine imple- mentation, Novis, to help with understanding of program- ming and its dynamics for beginning learners. The notional machine offers an abstraction of the physical machine de- signed for comprehension and learning purposes. Novis pro- vides a real-time visualisation of this notional machine, and is integrated into BlueJ.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Fourth International Conference on Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering (LATICE 2016)
Place of Publication	Mumbai, India
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LaTiCE.2016.5
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 31 Mar 2016

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