[Edu-sig] Executable pseudocode / executable flowcharts

[Todd Whittaker]

Thanks for the links.  I found a paper today that shows roughly what I'm
looking for, but I can't seem to actually find the software.  For those
interested, here's the link:

  http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie98/papers/1107.pdf

It has screen shots of a package that lets students create a top down
design that is then fleshed out with each method as an executable
flowchart.  It's called FLINT (for FLowchart INTerpreter).  Their data
suggests that there is a higher level of comprehension when programming is
taught this way over a plain-old code way.

When it comes to Object Oriented Programming (i.e. once you're past the
methods-are-procedural-code roadblock), I've really liked the approach
BlueJ has taken.  But, that's a Java thing...

  http://www.bluej.org/

-- 
Todd

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