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VL
2005
IEEE
159views Visual Languages» more  VL 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Executable Visual Contracts
Design by Contract (DbC) is widely acknowledged to be a powerful technique for creating reliable software. DbC allows developers to specify the behavior of an operation precisely ...
Marc Lohmann, Stefan Sauer, Gregor Engels
VL
2002
IEEE
118views Visual Languages» more  VL 2002»
14 years 1 months ago
Novice Comprehension of Programs Using Task-Specific and Non-Task-Specific Constructs
This study examines the comprehension and modification by novices of programs written with taskspecific and non-task-specific constructs. Teachers who write programs for use in th...
Alec Engebretson, Susan Wiedenbeck
IWPC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Adding Control-Flow to a Visual Data-Flow Representation
Previous studies have shown that novices do not tend to extract or use data-flow information during program comprehension. However, for impact analysis and similar tasks, data-ï¬...
David Dearman, Anthony Cox, Maryanne Fisher
VL
2009
IEEE
128views Visual Languages» more  VL 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Language-based support for computational thinking
This paper explores the potential for simplified programming languages to support the development of computational thinking skills in non-programmers. We suggest that novice progr...
Katherine Howland, Judith Good, Keiron Nicholson
VL
2003
IEEE
105views Visual Languages» more  VL 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
Visual composition of web services
Web services are increasingly attracting attention for their ability to provide standard interfaces to heterogeneous distributed services. Through these standard interfaces, it is...
Cesare Pautasso, Gustavo Alonso