Building a Community and Establishing Best Practices in Algorithm Visualization Through the Algoviz Wiki

计算机科学(31)这个项目扩展了AlgoViz Wiki，http://algoviz.cs.vt.edu，的前期工作，使其成为一个真正的社区资源。作为该项目的成果，AlgoViz Wiki成为定位算法可视化(AVs)、发布新的AVs、阅读用户评论以及分享课堂使用经验的焦点。该项目帮助反病毒开发者和用户相互联系和互动，为审查、评级和评论可用的反病毒提供社交支持，并分享如何最好地使用反病毒的活动和计划。面向开发人员的资源包括有关开发工具和反病毒工具包的信息、有关许可和知识产权政策的信息、关于反病毒设计中哪些有效、哪些无效的指导，以及关于哪些主题最需要新可视化的指导。开发了一个SourceForge站点，开发人员可以在其中共享AVs的范例源代码，使新的开发人员能够看到其他人是如何解决基本的设计和开发问题的。智慧的优点：这一努力提高了计算教育社区对如何使AVs在教学上有效的理解。它利用社区的集体知识来推动更好的开发实践和更好的部署。社区可以集体确定高质量的教学材料和有效的部署模式。广泛影响：提高AVs的普遍可用性和质量可以影响每年数万名计算机科学和相关学科学生的教育结果。提供有关最佳实践的社区资源可改善世界各地未来AVs的发展。现有AVs的信息交换中心，并记录其使用的最佳做法，为教师提供高质量的教育材料。

Computer Science (31)This project expands preliminary work on the AlgoViz Wiki, http://algoviz.cs.vt.edu, to make it into a true community resource. As an outcome of this project, the AlgoViz Wiki becomes a focus point for locating algorithm visualizations (AVs), releasing new AVs, reading reviews from users, and sharing experiences about classroom use. This project helps AV developers and users connect and interact with each other, provides social support for reviewing, rating, and commenting on available AVs, and shares activities and plans for how best to use AVs. Resources for developers include information about development tools and AV toolkits, information about licensing and intellectual property policies, guidance on what works and what does not in AV design, and guidance on what topics are in greatest need of new visualizations. A SourceForge site is developed where developers can share exemplar source code for AVs, allowing new developers to see how others have solved fundamental design and development problems.Intellectual Merit: This effort improves the computing education community's understanding of how AVs can be made pedagogically effective. It leverages the collective knowledge of the community to drive better development practices and better deployment. The community can collectively identify quality instructional materials and effective modes of deployment.Broader Impact: Improving on the general availability and quality of AVs can affect the educational outcomes for tens of thousands of students every year in computer science and related disciplines. Providing a community resource on best practices improves the development of future AVs around the world. A clearing house of available AVs and documenting best practices for their use provides quality educational materials to instructors.