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The results of the present experiment indicate that BOXER must not be regarded as only a modernized update of LOGO, but as a real improvement over LOGO - at least with respect to the features which have been the subject of the present investigation. Whether this evaluation will hold for all features of the presentation mode in BOXER as well as for other task domains should be investigated in further studies. In addition, performance data should be gathered from online sessions with either LOGO and BOXER in order to evaluate whether and where data from controlled experiments may be generalized. Nevertheless, the present study may be regarded as a first step in that direction as well as BOXER may be regarded as a promising step in providing efficient visual aids in programming.
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Schweiker, H., Muthig, KP. (1987). Solving interpolation problems with LOGO and BOXER. In: Gorny, P., Tauber, M.J. (eds) Visualization in Programming. IPsy 1986. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 282. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-18507-0_11
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