JCAT - COLLABORATIVE ACTIVE TEXTBOOKS USING JAVA

This paper describes JCAT, a Java-based system for building Web-based collaborative active textbooks on algorithms. JCAT augments the expres sive power of Web pages for publishing passive multimedia information with a full-fledged interactive algorithm animation system. The system is built in such a way that views of a running program may reside on different machines, thereby making JCAT particularly well-suited for e lectronic classrooms. In such a setting, an instructor controls the an imation, while students view the animation by painting their Web brows ers at the appropriate page. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.