Jeliot 3, an Extensible Tool for Program Visualization
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Jeliot 3 is a program visualization tool that can be used in introductory courses of programming. It animates a large set of Java programs and can interact with the BlueJ IDE. Jeliot 3 has been tested and shown to be useful for novice students with difficulties in programming. In this paper, we discuss how Jeliot 3 has been designed to allow for extensibility with modular design. This allows both original and other developers to add different visualization paradigms to Jeliot 3, or to connect Jeliot 3 with other environments. We present how Jeliot 3 has been integrated with others system in order to ease its use by teachers and students.
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