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Code Park: A New 3D Code Visualization Tool and IDE
| Title: | Code Park: A New 3D Code Visualization Tool and IDE. |
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| Name(s): |
Khaloo, Pooya, Author Laviola II, Joseph, Committee Chair Foroosh, Hassan, Committee Member Leavens, Gary, Committee Member University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2017 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | We introduce Code Park, a novel tool for visualizing codebases in a 3D game-like environment. Code Park aims to improve a programmer's understanding of an existing codebase in a manner that is both engaging and fun to be appealing especially for novice users such as students. It achieves these goals by laying out the codebase in a 3D park-like environment. Each class in the codebase is represented as a 3D room-like structure. Constituent parts of the class (variable, member functions, etc.) are laid out on the walls, resembling a syntax-aware (")wallpaper("). The users can interact with the codebase using an overview, and a first-person viewer mode. They also can edit, compile and run code in this environment. We conducted three user studies to evaluate Code Park's usability and suitability for organizing an existing project. Our results indicate that Code Park is easy to get familiar with and significantly helps in code understanding. Further, the users unanimously believed that Code Park was an engaging tool to work with. | |
| Identifier: | CFE0006752 (IID), ucf:51838 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
2017-08-01 M.S. Engineering and Computer Science, Computer Science Masters This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): | code visualization -- 3d interaction -- HCI -- IDE -- programming | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0006752 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | public 2017-08-15 | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
