A spectrum of algorithm animation systems has evolved
for the teaching and learning of distributed
algorithms. These have ranged from passive animation
systems, which provide multiple prepared views of an
algorithms process for a learner to view, stop,
pause, step through or rewind, through active
simulation systems, which enable a learner to affect
changes to the behavior of an algorithm during
execution, to algorithm construction systems, which
enable a learner to create an animation of an
algorithms behavior. However, these systems have
failed to catch on in mainstream computer...