Analysis of Student Activity and Its Effect Utilizing Programming Education Support Tool Pgtracer

In this paper, we analyze learning activity of students and its effect when we utilize the programming education support tool pgtracer to provide homework for their programming course. We assigned homework utilizing pgtracer to the students and incorporated its learning achievement to their evaluation of the course. As a result, this method improved the learning activity of the students. Their understanding of the trace table was related to understanding of the programming. Their answering processes to reach to a correct answer varied according to their programming skill. As for their understanding of the program, those who did their homework continuously understood a program well compared to those who only prepared for the exam in a short term. Therefore, we can conclude that providing homework utilizing pgtracer is effective for students' centered learning of programming.