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  • Understanding and supporting end-user debugging strategies

    Creator:
    Grigoreanu, Valentina I.
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    End users' programs are fraught with errors, costing companies millions of dollars. One reason may be that researchers and tool designers have not yet focused on end-user debugging strategies. To investigate this possibility, this dissertation presents eight empirical studies and a new strategy-based end-user debugging tool for Excel, called StratCel....
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    and a new strategy-based end-user debugging tool for Excel, called StratCel. These studies revealed

  • Generalizing the Idea Garden : Principles and Contexts

    Creator:
    Jernigan, William
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    In previous work, the Idea Garden was created to help those relatively new to programming overcome their barriers in CoScripter. The goal of this thesis was to generalize the Idea Garden's success to other users and environments. We present a set of principles on how to help EUPs like this...
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    other users and environments. We present a set of principles on how to help EUPs like this learn just

  • The sum of its parts : investigating the component pieces of GenderMag

    Creator:
    Hill, Charles
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    Previous work introduced the GenderMag method, a software inspection method used to help software creators identify features within their software that are not gender-inclusive. Inclusiveness of software (gender or otherwise) matters because supporting diversity matters—it is well-known that the more diverse a group of problem-solvers, the higher the quality of...
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    M. Burnett Previous work introduced the GenderMag method, a software inspection method used

  • Novel approaches to promoting end-user programming

    Creator:
    Bahmani, Faezeh
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    End-user programming has become widespread. The increasing size of this population and the prevalence of barriers that they face has sparked the development of approaches that promote end-user programing by helping them overcome barriers and teaching them programming. Despite the fact that these approaches have done well in achieving those...
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    inform the design of the Idea Garden in a Debugging-first environment, shed lights on enhancing both

  • Toward end-user debugging of machine-learned programs

    Creator:
    Kulesza, Todd
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    The results of a machine learning from user behavior can be thought of as a program, and like all programs, it may need to be debugged. Providing ways for the user to debug it matters because without the ability to fix errors, users may find that the learned program’s errors...
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    results of a machine learning from user behavior can be thought of as a program, and like all programs

  • Joining open source software communities: an analysis of newbies’ first interactions on project mailing lists

    Creator:
    King, Scott T.
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    Open source software has become a powerful force in the world of computing. While once confined to the domain of technical specialists, people of all types have begun to adopt this software – from the casual web-surfer who uses Firefox, to the professional web developer who codes in PHP or...
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    . A big thanks goes to Eric Betts, Jill Cao, Eunyoung Chung, Heather Lonsdale, Yunrim Park, Jordan

  • Helping end-user programmers help themselves : the idea garden approach

    Creator:
    Cao, Chen
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    End-user programmers face many barriers in programming. Research has seen many programming environments that attempted to lower or remove the barriers but despite these efforts, empirical studies continue to report barriers users face. To investigate this issue, we took a theory-informed approach. Using theories from design, creativity, and problem solving...
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    Help Themselves – The Idea Garden Approach by Jill Cao (Chen Cao) A

  • Eliciting informal specifications from scientific modelers for evaluation and debugging

    Creator:
    Bogart, Christopher
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    Professional software engineers have an arsenal of techniques such as unit testing and assertions to check their specifications, but these techniques require tools, motivation, experience and training that programmers without professional software engineering training may not have. As a result, professionals in other fields, such as scientific modelers, face greater...
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    . As a result, professionals in other fields, such as scientific modelers, face greater hurdles in