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IFIP
1994
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Object-Oriented System Development: Will the New Approach Solve Old Problems?
Object-oriented system development is wideley recognized as improving productivity and reducing system maintenance costs. However, existing approaches have not su ciently addresse...
Gregor Engels, Gerti Kappel
VL
1997
IEEE
165views Visual Languages» more  VL 1997»
13 years 12 months ago
Alterable Visual Languages
The large number of programming languages in the world is a consequence of the broad spectrum of human preferences for different notational styles and semantic models, which depen...
Chris M. Holt
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
119views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Practice what you preach: full separation of concerns in CS1/CS2
We argue that the failure to separate the concerns in CS1 is the leading cause of difficulty in teaching OOP in the first year. We show how the concerns can be detangled and prese...
Hamzeh Roumani
VSTTE
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
From the How to the What
In this paper, we consider the Grand Challenge under a very specific perspective: the enabling of application experts without programming knowledge to reliably model their busines...
Tiziana Margaria, Bernhard Steffen
ICFP
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Acute: high-level programming language design for distributed computation
Existing languages provide good support for typeful programming of standalone programs. In a distributed system, however, there may be interaction between multiple instances of ma...
Peter Sewell, James J. Leifer, Keith Wansbrough, F...