Invited research overview: End-user programming

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 75-80

  Myers, Brad A ^a   Ko, Andrew J ^a   Burnett, Margaret M ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical studies of programmers (ESP); End user software engineering; Natural programming; Programming by demonstration; Programming by example; Psychology of programming; Visual programming

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF PROGRAMMERS; END-USER SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; NATURAL PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING BY DEMONSTRATION; PROGRAMMING BY EXAMPLE; PSYCHOLOGY OF PROGRAMMING; VISUAL PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPREADSHEETS; VISUAL BASIC;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 84869132808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1125451.1125472     Document Type: Conference Paper

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