How can diagramming tools help support programming activities?

Proceedings - 2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 246-249

  Lee, Seonah ^a   Murphy, Gail C ^a   Fritz, Thomas ^a   Allen, Meghan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT OF USES; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; INFORMATION CONTENTS; PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMERS; PROGRAMMING ACTIVITIES; TOOL SUPPORTS;

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EID: 56349126204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2008.4639095     Document Type: Conference Paper

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