NetLuke is an interactive, Web-based, e-Learning system to visualize the dynamic behavior of algorithms and data structures. It is used as a supportive tool for under-graduate and graduate courses on these topics. It aims for clarity and vividness, simplicity, portability, and extendibility and supports user controlled dynamics. During the design of the system specific focus was laid on the deployment of NetLuke in a mobile environment. Mobile devices force the developer to put considerable effort into interface design and implementation details. Touch based interaction, common for mobile devices today, makes perfect sense for teaching applications, as it supports an intuitive "game-like" interactive approach. Moving to a web based solution opens up new architectural and technological perspectives that support our goal for the development of a modern kind of algorithm visualization platform. Our vision of a user centred, non-monolithic approach is reflected by NetLukes architectural design and its set of features, as easy extensibility and adaptibility. The flexible system design and the choice of latest Web technology support the deployment to the whole range of existing computer platforms, from PCs, tablets to Smartphones.

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