[[alternative]]Towards General-Purpose Program Animation

[[abstract]]There are many software visualization researches nowadays. Software visualization is an aid for program understanding, debugging and teaching. Although there are many researches aiming for algorithm animation, most of them are designed for specific algorithms and data structures. Some researches aim for general-purpose program animation but animation generation typically requires extra work from the users. In this thesis, we develop a tool, called YaJDB, to provide debugging information for DIVINE and the necessary support for animation metaphor to make it possible to animate general-purpose programs. YaJDB is a debugger modified from JDB. YaJDB is used to catch the information during program execution. Besides, we develop a simple animation metaphor to show that our approach works. In the future, we will develop more realistic animation metaphors and needed mapping engine.