Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Sep 2012 20:27 UTC, submitted by MOS6510
"Online Python Tutor is a free educational tool that helps students overcome a fundamental barrier to learning programming: understanding what happens as the computer executes each line of a program's source code. Using this tool, a teacher or student can write a Python program directly in the web browser and visualize what the computer is doing step-by-step as it executes the program."
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While the tool and the approach itself seems nice, I still think that it's done backwards. The students need to be explained and taught how a computer works, how code is executed, what happens when a program runs, how and what instructions do, and then the barrier will not exist anymore. Such tools can be useful in explaining all that, for sure, but not as a programming-learning tool, more a programming/language-understanding tool.