Evolution of Novice Programming Environments: The Structure Editors of Carnegie Mellon University

Miller, Paul B.; Pane, John F.; Meter, Glenn; Vorthmann, Scott A.

doi:10.1080/1049482940040202

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“…The ACSE project (which included the Builder) and its predecessors had been in existence for more than 15 years at Carnegie Mellon University, producing several versions of novice programming environments currently used in universities across the Unites States (Miller, Pane, Meter & Vorthmann, 1994). The project was winding down at the time of our involvement; one full-time developer, Dev1, was available to assess the PDRs and fix the code.…”

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confidence: 99%

Tracking the effectiveness of usability evaluation methods

John¹,

Marks²

1997

Behaviour & Information Technology

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We present a case study that tracks usability problems predicted with six usability evaluation methods (Claims Analysis, Cognitive Walkthrough, GOMS, Heuristic Evaluation, User Action Notation, and simply reading the specification) through a development process. We assess the methods' predictive power by comparing the predictions to the results of user tests. We assess the methods' persuasive power by seeing how many problems led to changes in the implemented code. We assess design-change effectiveness by user testing the resulting new versions of the system. We conclude that predictive methods are not as effective as the HCI field would like and discuss directions for future research.

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Tracking the effectiveness of usability evaluation methods

John¹,

Marks²

1997

Behaviour & Information Technology

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“…Our work resembles the top-down Pascal editors developed in the Genie project [16]. These series of editors provide structure editing support, so that a student does not have to remember the particular syntax of a programming language.…”

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An interactive functional programming tutor

Gerdes

Jeuring

Heeren

2012

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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We introduce an interactive tutor that supports the stepwise development of simple functional programs. Using this tutor, students receive feedback about whether or not they are on the right track, can ask for a hint when they are stuck, and get suggestions about how to refactor their program. Our tutor generates this semantically rich feedback from model solutions, using advanced concepts from software technology. We show how a teacher can add an exercise to the tutor, and fine-tune feedback. We report on an experiment in which we used our tutor.

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“…Relevant examples of structure editors include GNOME [2], which used menus for entering low-level content (similar to our slots) with entry restricted to previously declared values, and Boxer [3], which used "boxes" instead of pure text -a construct that shares some aspects with our frames.…”

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Position paper: Lack of keyboard support cripples block-based programming

Brown

Kölling

Altadmri

2015

2015 IEEE Blocks and Beyond Workshop (Blocks and Beyond)

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Abstract-Block-based programming is very popular with beginners, but it has failed to gain traction among intermediate and expert programmers. The mouse-centric interfaces typically found in block-based programming environments make edit interactions (especially in large programs) tedious and awkward. We propose that adding keyboard support is a key step to extending the applicability of block-based programming ideas and would allow their use by intermediate and expert programmers, extending some of their benefits to new user groups. We describe an implementation of this idea, 'frame-based programming', which leads to a number of benefits in error avoidance and edit efficiency.

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Evolution of Novice Programming Environments: The Structure Editors of Carnegie Mellon University

Cited by 51 publications

References 6 publications

Tracking the effectiveness of usability evaluation methods

Tracking the effectiveness of usability evaluation methods

An interactive functional programming tutor

Position paper: Lack of keyboard support cripples block-based programming

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