An AR/TUI-supported Debugging Teaching Environment

D. Resnyansky , M. Billinghurst , A. Dey

OZCHI

Debugging is hard for novices partly because program structure is invisible and abstract. This paper presents a prototype teaching environment that uses tangible physical markers within an augmented-reality workspace to let students interact with code. It is designed to scaffold two abilities central to debugging: reading beyond syntax to grasp a program's overall structure, and independently recalling and applying knowledge to build new, working code.

@inproceedings{resnyansky2019,
  author    = {D. Resnyansky and M. Billinghurst and A. Dey},
  title     = {An AR/TUI-supported Debugging Teaching Environment},
  booktitle = {OZCHI},
  pages     = {590-594},
  doi       = {10.1145/3369457.3369538},
  year      = {2019}
}