Achieving flexibility in direct-manipulation programming environments by relaxing the edit-time grammar

Proceedings - 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 259-268

  Birnbaum, Benjamin E ^a   Goldman, Kenneth J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT-MANIPULATION PROGRAMMING; EDIT-TIME GRAMMAR; GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING; SYNTAX ERRORS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ERROR CORRECTION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; STUDENTS; SYNTACTICS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33745824915     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2005.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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