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Visual programming environments empower end-users with interactive input and feedback mechanisms that support live and exploratory programming. For creating these environments, language engineers require enabling technology. Language workbenches and meta-...

In this work we investigate the views of novice programmers on three important IDE mechanisms: compilation, error indication, and error message presentation. We utilize two versions of the BlueJ pedagogical programming environment which encapsulate ...

Programming grants individuals the capability to design, create, and bring ideas to life. To improve their skills, programmers require powerful languages and programming environments for understanding the impact of gradual code changes. We investigate ...

In college-level introductory computer science courses, the programming ability of students is often evaluated using pseudocode responses to prompts. However, this does not necessarily reflect modern programming practice in industry and academia, where ...

The first two chapters of the introductory computer science textbook Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, JavaScript Adaptation (SICP JS), use a subset of JavaScript called Source §2. The book introduces the reduction-based “substitution ...

The simulation environment of any HPC platform is key to the performance, portability, and productivity of scientific applications. This environment has traditionally been provided by platform vendors, presenting challenges for HPC centers and users ...

Learning to program is a process that relies on learning theoretical fundamentals as well as practice, and almost always involves some type of programming environment. In order to build effective environments that support good learning for novices, it ...

Timely feedback is essential for students to learn and improve their performance. However, it is hard for computing instructors to provide real-time feedback for every student, particularly during homework or online classes. While researchers have put ...

Prior work suggests that novice programmers are greatly impacted by the feedback provided by their programming environments. While some research has examined the impact of feedback on student learning in programming, there is no work (to our knowledge) ...

Once a programmer knows one language, they can leverage concepts and knowledge already learned, and easily pick up another programming language. But is that always the case? To understand if programmers have difficulty learning additional programming ...

Computers have become ubiquitous in our life and work, and the way that they are built and used needs to be fundamentally improved. Most of the prior effort has been aimed at improving the programming experience for people with specific technical ...

Improving the feedback that novices receive from programming environments is an important and often overlooked aspect of computing education research. This work in progress examines the effects of various mechanisms by which environments deliver ...

It is generally accepted that learning to program could be easier for many students. One of the most important components of this experience is the programming environment. Novices learn in a variety of environments, from basic command-line interfaces ...

Collaborative robots are being applied in a growing number of usage scenarios, but their adoption is slowed down by the high complexity of robot programming. As previous prototype studies have shown, block-based programming environments can enable ...

Program verifiers statically check programs based on source code annotations such as invariants, pre- and postconditions. These annotations can be more precise than simple types. For example, a sorting routine might be annotated with a postcondition ...

In recent times, programming environments like Visual Studio are widely used to enhance programmer productivity. However, inadequate accessibility prevents Visually Impaired (VI) developers from taking full advantage of these environments. In this paper,...

Collaborative code review has become an integral part of the collaborative design process in the domain of software development. However, there are well-documented challenges and limitations to collaborative code review---for instance, high-quality code ...

Parallel surveys of introductory programming courses were conducted in Australasia and the UK, with a view to examining the programming languages being used, the preferred integrated development environments (if any), and the reasons for these choices, ...

The number of students taking high school computer science classes is growing. Increasingly, these students are learning with graphical, block-based programming environments either in place of or prior to traditional text-based programming languages. ...

Hybrid, dual-modality programming environments provide both blocks-based and text-based interfaces for programming. While previous research investigated the transition from visual to textual environments, few studies considered these hybrid ...