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News

December 2010: Paper on Frances-A tool accepted for CCSC 2011.

September 2010: Initial release of Frances-A tool.

March 2010: Support added for MIPS assembly and x86 intel syntax.

January 2010: Tutorial on Frances tool accepted for CCSC 2010.

October 2009: Paper on Frances tool accepted for SIGCSE 2010.

August 2009: Technical Report: Frances: A Tool For Understanding Code Generation , ISU, 2009.

Publications Related to the Frances Project


Refereed Conference Papers


Tyler Sondag, Kian L. Pokorny, and Hridesh Rajan "Frances-A: A Tool for Architecture Level Program Visualization," Journal of Computing Sciences at Small Colleges, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges -- Central Plains, April 2011

Tyler Sondag, Kian L. Pokorny, and Hridesh Rajan "Frances: A Tool For Understanding Code Generation," SIGCSE '10: The 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Milwaukee, WI, March 2010



Refereed Tutorials


Kian L. Pokorny, Tyler Sondag, and Hridesh Rajan, "Connecting High-Level Programming Constructs to Assembly Language Using Frances ," J. Comput. Small Coll., 25(5):282–283, 2010.



Technical Reports


Tyler Sondag, Kian L. Pokorny and Hridesh Rajan, "Frances-A: A Tool For Easy Realistic Architecture Level Program Visualization". Technical Report 10-08, Computer Science, Iowa State University, September 2010 [PDF].

Tyler Sondag, Kian L. Pokorny and Hridesh Rajan, "Frances: A Tool For Understanding Code Generation". Technical Report 09-21, Computer Science, Iowa State University, August 2009 [PDF].