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1999
IEEE
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Scaling up a "What You See Is What You Test" Methodology to Spreadsheet Grids
Although there has been considerable research into ways to design visual programming environments to improve the processes of creating new programs and of understanding existing o...
Margaret M. Burnett, Andrei Sheretov, Gregg Rother...
VL
1999
IEEE
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An NCE Context-Sensitive Graph Grammar for Visual Design Languages
Yoshihiro Adachi, Suguru Kobayashi, Kensei Tsuchid...
VL
1999
IEEE
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Virtual Worlds as Metaphors for Web Sites Exploration: Are They Effective?
This work discusses the effectiveness of desktop virtual reality as a metaphor for navigating through information in structured Web sites. The work is based on a model for informa...
Augusto Celentano
VL
2000
IEEE
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Learning and Reuse of a Visual Programming Language
Five science teachers were observed during two selfstudy sessions where they learned to use Visual AgenTalk (VAT). In the first session they learned basic skills; in the second, t...
Mary Beth Rosson, Cheryl D. Seals
VL
2000
IEEE
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A Common Framework for Input, Processing, and Output in a Rule-Based Visual Language
Isaac is a programing language for geometric reasoning intended for controlling mobile robots, currently under development at NMSU. Due to the application area, handling input and...
Joseph J. Pfeiffer Jr., Rick L. Vinyard Jr., Berna...
VL
2000
IEEE
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Tabular and Textual Methods for Selecting Objects from a Group
The accurate formulation of boolean expressions is a notorious problem in programming languages and database query tools. This paper studies the ways that untrained users naturall...
John F. Pane, Brad A. Myers
VL
2000
IEEE
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A Data-Flow Visual Approach to Symbolic Computing: Implementing a Production-Rule-Based Programming System through a General-Pur
The main aim of this paper is to investigate how the production-rule-based computational paradigm can be implemented through visual data-flow techniques. We propose a simple yet e...
Mauro Mosconi, Marco Porta
VL
2000
IEEE
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Visualizing the Synchronization of Java-Threads with UML
Concurrent programming is a complex task, even with modern languages such as Java who provide languagebased support for multithreading and synchronization. In addition to typical ...
Katharina Mehner, Annika Wagner
VL
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Using the Cognitive Walkthrough to Improve the Design of a Visual Programming Experiment
Thomas R. G. Green, Margaret M. Burnett, Andrew Je...
VL
2000
IEEE
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SALSA and ALVIS: A Language and System for Constructing and Presenting Low Fidelity Algorithm Visualizations
Computer science educators have traditionally used algorithm visualization (AV) software to create graphical representations of algorithms that are later used as visual aids in le...
Christopher D. Hundhausen, Sarah A. Douglas