Development of web-based tutorial for data structure using animation / SyahdatulHikmah Mohammad Jafri

Web-based learning tools provide integrated environments of various technologies to
support diverse educators' and learners' needs via the Internet. Data Structure is one of
the core or elective subjects for the students taking Diploma in Computer Science, and
Bachelor in Computer Science. In order to gain more understanding of this course, that
is Data Structure, students will always go and refer to overseas university's websites.
However, the contents of those websites sometimes do not cover or fit with the UiTM's
syllabus. In Malaysia, there is also no Data Structure website that teaches the student
especially with an animation. So, this Data Structure Web-Based Tutorial Using
Animation is significant for the user especially the students to give a clear understanding
for them to learn Data Structure by referring to the visualization tool besides to develop
a self-tutoring environment. In this project, we use prototyping as a benchmark for us to
evaluate the project, which later will be used to develop the final version of the project.
For the data collection, we did some interviews, observations as well as referring to the
published materials and the existing Data Structure learning tools. We discussed the
findings from this study in relation to basic usability issues that must be attended to
when designing this web-based learning tool. For the design stage, there are two
sections, which are the content design and the interface design. We also reported on
students' perceptions of whether the tools have positively or negatively affected their
learning in the course and their recommendations. The target of this project is to produce
a prototype of a Data Structure Web-Based Tutorial Using Animation for the users to
learn, feel enjoy with and understand the fundamental of Data Structure.