Visual programming: perspectives and approaches

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 199-221

  Shu, Nan C ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMIC PROGRAMMING; DIAGRAMMATIC SYSTEMS; VISUAL PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 0032647412     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.382.0199     Document Type: Article

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