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List of Figures
1.1 This thesis within the disciplines .............................. 12
1.2 This thesis as dialogue (contains spoilers) ......................... 14
1.3 A crossword puzzle ..................................... 15
2.1 Bloom’s taxonomy (revised version) ............................ 20
2.2 The SOLO taxonomy .................................... 23
4.1 A commonly used basic architecture of human memory .................. 34
4.2 A short program that features multiple plans ........................ 39
4.3 Types of cognitive load and load-related problems ..................... 45
5.1 Robust models transferred into an unexpected context ................... 67
6.1 A classification of constructivisms .............................. 76
6.2 A radical destructivist .................................... 80
7.1 The phenomenographic research perspective ........................ 95
8.1 Views from three traditions: the foundations of learning and research . . .........108
8.2 Views from three traditions: mechanisms and processes of learning . . . .........108
8.3 Views from three traditions: pedagogy ...........................109
8.4 Views from three traditions: programming education ...................109
10.1 A visualization of a simple notional machine ........................130
10.2 A visualization of objects ..................................130
10.3 A visualization of objects and call stack frames ......................130
10.4 A visualization of parameter passing ............................132
10.5 BlueJ’s object workbench and object inspector . . . ....................132
10.6 Anchor Garden ........................................133
10.7 The Python Visual Sandbox .................................133
11.1 Forms of software visualization ...............................142
11.2 A classification of programming environments and languages for novice programmers . . 143
11.3 A two-dimensional engagement taxonomy (2DET) .....................150
11.4 The PyDev debugger in Eclipse ...............................155
11.5 Basic Programming for the Atari 2600 ...........................156
11.6 DynaLab ...........................................157
11.7 Amethyst ...........................................158
11.8 Bradman ...........................................158
11.9 VisMod ............................................158
11.10 DISCOVER ..........................................159
11.11 Korsh and Sangwan’s program visualization tool ......................161
11.12 VINCE ............................................161
11.13 OGRE ............................................162
11.14 JIVE .............................................163
11.15 Memview ...........................................163
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