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VL
2006
IEEE
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Work, Play, and In-Between: Exploring the Role of Work Context for Informal Web Developers
Web development is rapidly becoming a routine activity for informal as well as professional software developers. One variable that distinguished segments of this population was th...
Mary Beth Rosson, Sue E. Kase
VL
2006
IEEE
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A Linguistic Analysis of How People Describe Software Problems
There is little understanding of how people describe software problems, but a variety of tools solicit, manage, and analyze these descriptions in order to streamline software deve...
Andrew J. Ko, Brad A. Myers, Duen Horng Chau
VL
2006
IEEE
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Lessons Learned from Designing a Programming System to Support Middle School Girls Creating Animated Stories
Traditional approaches to teaching computer science are often unsuccessful in attracting girls into the discipline. Our hypothesis is that presenting computer programming as a mea...
Caitlin Kelleher, Randy Pausch
VL
2006
IEEE
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Mica: A Web-Search Tool for Finding API Components and Examples
Because software libraries are numerous and large, learning how to use them is a common and problematic task for experienced programmers and novices alike. Internet search engines...
Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers
VL
2006
IEEE
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Sharing reasoning about faults in spreadsheets: An empirical study
Although researchers have developed several ways to reason about the location of faults in spreadsheets, no single form of reasoning is without limitations. Multiple types of erro...
Joseph Lawrance, Robin Abraham, Margaret M. Burnet...
VL
2006
IEEE
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Code Thumbnails: Using Spatial Memory to Navigate Source Code
Modern development environments provide many features for navigating source code, yet recent studies show the developers still spend a tremendous amount of time just navigating. S...
Robert DeLine, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Gina...
VL
2007
IEEE
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A Sequent Based Logic for Coincidence Grids
Information is often represented in tabular format in everyday documents such as balance sheets, sales figures, and so on. Tables represent an interesting point in the spectrum o...
Dave Barker-Plummer, Nik Swoboda
VL
2007
IEEE
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A PROLOG-based Approach to Representing and Querying Software Engineering Models
Striving toward the vision of Model Driven development (MDD), we face many open questions connected to the elementary tasks involved in working with models. Probably the most basi...
Harald Störrle
VL
2007
IEEE
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Visual Languages: A Matter of Style
This articles submits the thesis that visual data modeling and programming languages are conveniently conceived as rendering, or ‘styling’, of conventional, textual languages....
Sacha Berger, François Bry, Tim Furche, Chr...
VL
2007
IEEE
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A Peirce Style Calculus for ALC
Description logics (DLs) are a well-understood family of knowledge representation (KR) languages. The notation of DLs has the flavour of a variable-free first order predicate lo...
Frithjof Dau, Peter W. Eklund