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Steering programs via time travel

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Atwood, John Wesley, Jr., Burnett, Margaret, 1949-, Walpole, Rebecca A., Wilcox, E. M., Yang, Sherry, and Oregon State University. Dept. of Computer Science

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Despite years of research into human computer interaction (HCI), the environments programmers must use for problem-solving today—with separate modes and tools for writing, compiling, testing, visualizing, and debugging— derive their basic structure from historical accident, and take little advantage of HCI research into the cognitive issues of programming. Neglecting these...

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Research Paper

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. W. Atwood, Jr., M. M. Burnett*, R. A. Walpole, E. M. Wilcox, and S. Yang Department of Computer
Representation design benchmarks : a design-time aid for VPL navigable static representations

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Yang, Sherry, Burnett, Margaret M., DeKoven, Elyon, and Zloof, Moshé

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A weakness of many interactive visual programming languages (VPLs) is their static representations. Lack of an adequate static representation places a heavy cognitive burden on a VPL's programmers, because they must remember potentially long dynamic sequences of screen displays in order to understand a previously-written program. However, although this problem...

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Technical Report
Generalizing abstractions in form-based visual programming languages : from direct manipulation to static representation

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Yang, Sherry

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We believe concreteness, direct manipulation and responsiveness in a visual programming language increase its usefulness. However, these characteristics present a challenge in generalizing programs for reuse, especially when concrete examples are used as one way of achieving concreteness. In this thesis, we present a technique to solve this problem by...

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Dissertation

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collaboration. A very special thank you to members of the Forms/3 research group - John Atwood, Rebecca