Other debugging tools include AskIgor, a Web-based program from Andreas Zeller, a professor at Saarland University in Saarbrucken, Germany.

But Whyline has been used only to debug programs in Alice, an academic programming language with a limited vocabulary of commands to make interactive 3-D worlds, like video games.

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have released a game, Xylem, that helps the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency debug programming code.

I had a blank programming sheet template with allocated spaces for the mnemonics, op-codes and comments. After the flow chart was created, I would write the program in mnemonics and then translate it ...

Though this study used robotics as a programming context, findings on early childhood preservice teachers' debugging processes could be applicable to other contexts involving block-based programming.