LpT: ferramenta educacional para auxiliar o ensino/aprendizagem de traduções de diferentes níveis de linguagens de programação

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This article discusses the development of an educational tool to aid in the content abstraction on the translation of different levels of programming languages of the Computer Architecture discipline in the Computer Science, computer engineering, and other courses. The developed software aims to help the teaching and learning of the concepts of a high-level programming language translated into other levels (medium and low). To demonstrate some criteria inherent to the software efficiency it was carried out an experiment with Computer Architecture discipline students from the Computer Science course to clarify the level of usability and usefulness of the educational tool. Subsequently a questionnaire was applied to check the quality of student learning and the the tool effectiveness. The tool qualitative evaluation results showed that the construct Use Utility obtained greater acceptance when compared with the Ease of Use, thus highlighting the ease of learning and the students acceptance of the tool. And thus, it can be a great tool to help teachers in teaching and student learning process.