A bug's eye view of immediate visual feedback in direct-manipulation programming systems

Papers Presented at the 7th Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers, ESP 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 20-41

  Cook, Curtis ^a   Burnett, Margaret ^a   Boom, Derrick ^a  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Debugging; Direct manipulation; Empirical study; End user programming; Liveness; Spreadsheets; Visual programming languages

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER DEBUGGING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SPREADSHEETS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; VISUALIZATION;

DIRECT MANIPULATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; END USER PROGRAMMING; LIVENESS; VISUAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

VISUAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 36349018661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/266399.266403     Document Type: Conference Paper

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