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Field Reports are meant to give instructors an opportunity to report actual experiences with speciﬁc AVs in speciﬁc course settings.

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	Author	AVs used	Teaser	Posted	Last updated	Views
Interactive Hashing Tutorial	shaffer		This tutorial was used as part of a quasi-experiment to compare the pedagogical effectiveness of the tutorial as compared to standard textbook/...	2009-05-27 23:13	2010-06-27 11:17	2,223
Programming nondeterministic pushdown automata	rodger		In this lecture, students ﬁrst learn about pushdown automata. Then the instructor uses JFLAP...	2009-08-09 17:10	2010-06-27 11:18	1,744
Interactively experimenting with finite state machines	rodger		In this lesson, we ﬁrst introduce the formal deﬁnition of a deterministic ﬁnite automaton (DFA)...	2009-08-09 17:40	2010-06-27 11:18	883
Interactively learning SLR Parsing and how it fits in with automata theory	rodger		This lesson shows how deterministic ﬁnite automata (DFA), pushdown automata (PDA) and...	2009-08-09 18:01	2010-06-27 11:18	2,620
Interacting with L-Systems	rodger		L-systems are a different type of grammar than the formal language grammars in an automata theory course, so they are good for students to see...	2009-08-09 18:16	2010-06-27 11:18	1,046
Learning Turing Machines interactively	rodger		This lesson describes Turing machines formally and then uses JFLAP to interact with them. The lesson starts by...	2009-08-09 18:30	2010-06-27 11:20	1,418
Data structures assignment on graphs in which students construct AV of deadlock detection algorithm	naps		The AV engagement taxonomy speciﬁes four active levels of learner engagement with AV...	2009-08-10 16:07	2009-08-10 16:07	2,579
Tutorials for graph algorithms using two differnt AV viewers	naps		A collection of visualization-based tutorials on graph algorithms (...	2009-08-10 21:26	2009-08-10 21:26	1,136
Data structures lab on singly-linked lists	furcyd		This one-hour lab activity takes place after students have attended lectures on linked lists and how to build them using C++ pointers. Students...	2009-08-14 22:56	2011-05-05 12:42	1,168
CS1 activity on 1D arrays and FOR loops	furcyd		Students are actively engaged while practicing 1D array traversals using FOR loops. This activity takes place during...	2009-08-16 11:55	2011-05-05 12:45	1,293
Teaching the universal Turing machine	pilucrescenzi		The goal of these lectures (6 hours in 2006 and 3 hours in 2007) was to teach the students how to fully construct a universal Turing machine...	2009-08-21 03:38	2010-11-22 13:59	1,426
Tutorial for priority queues and binary heap	ville		A tutorial on priority queues and binary heap was used on two different courses, one at Helsinki University of Technology and one at the...	2009-08-21 08:13	2010-06-27 11:24	2,099
Use of animations in a CS 2 course	clancy		Activities involving the two cited visualizations were part of our lab-centric data structures and programming methodology course,...	2009-08-21 13:00	2011-05-05 12:57	1,214
Using graph visualization with code.	chelwig		This visualization is one of ﬁve that was used as a mini-tutorial in a Data Structures III class. Last...	2009-09-23 08:53	2011-05-05 13:02	1,643
Lecture and Study Aides for Data Structures Class	shaffer		A series of AVs were used throughout the course of the semester course. Mostly they were intended as supports for lecture, and many were only...	2011-05-06 22:05	2011-05-16 17:05	910
MST and Dijkstra animations at a German Hochschule	mcclung		The students were asked to view three animations, Kruskal and Prim for MST and Dijkstra for shortest-path, before...	2011-05-19 06:55	2011-05-20 13:39	1,049
jGRASP and CS2	huss		I heavily used jGRASP and Duane Bailey’s freely available book Java...	2011-08-07 18:17	2011-08-08 10:35	740