Opportunistic Programming: Writing code to prototype, ideate, and discover

IEEE Software

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 18-24

  Brandt, Joel ^a   Guo, Philip J ^b   Lewenstein, Joel ^a   Dontcheva, Mira ^c   Klemmer, Scott R ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c ADOBE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Debugging; Opportunistic programming; Prototyping; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

COPY-AND-PASTE; DEBUGGING; OPPORTUNISTIC PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING PRINCIPLES; PROTOTYPING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRACTICES; WRITING CODES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COPYING; MAINTAINABILITY; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EID: 70049103393     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2009.147     Document Type: Article

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