Sciweavers

VL
2007
IEEE
122views Visual Languages» more  VL 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Children as Unwitting End-User Programmers
Children who are active on the internet are performing significant design and programming activity without realising it, in the course of hacking little animations, game scripts a...
Marian Petre, Alan F. Blackwell
VL
2007
IEEE
132views Visual Languages» more  VL 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
A Study on Applying Roles of Variables in Introductory Programming
Expert programmers possess programming knowledge, which is language independent and abstract. Still, programming is mostly taught only via constructs of a programming language and...
Pauli Byckling, Jorma Sajaniemi
VL
2007
IEEE
120views Visual Languages» more  VL 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Finding Gender Differences in End-User Debugging: A Data Mining Approach
We are currently investigating what types of end user personas (or homogeneous groups in the population) exist and what works for or hinders each in end-user debugging. These pers...
Valentina Grigoreanu
VL
2007
IEEE
116views Visual Languages» more  VL 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Mapping the Space of API Design Decisions
When creating new application programming interfaces (APIs), designers must make many decisions. These decisions affect the quality of the resulting APIs in terms of performance (...
Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers
VL
2007
IEEE
117views Visual Languages» more  VL 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
EulerView: a non-hierarchical visualization component
The Treeview control is the traditional way of visualizing hierarchical information in user interfaces, but in situations such as managing bookmarks in browsers, more general clas...
Rosario De Chiara, Andrew Fish
VL
2007
IEEE
111views Visual Languages» more  VL 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
On to the Real World: Gender and Self-Efficacy in Excel
Although there have been a number of studies of end-user software development tasks, few of them have considered gender issues for real end-user developers in real-world environme...
Laura Beckwith, Derek Inman, Kyle Rector, Margaret...
VL
2007
IEEE
121views Visual Languages» more  VL 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Scenario-Based Requirements for Web Macro Tools
Web macros automate the interactions of end users with web sites and related information systems. Though web macro recorders and players have grown in sophistication over the past...
Christopher Scaffidi, Allen Cypher, Sebastian G. E...
VL
2007
IEEE
166views Visual Languages» more  VL 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Community-Based Scaffolding to Promote End-User Learning
End-user programming provides a unique opportunity to study informal computer science education and knowledge acquisition in the real world. We seek to explore the use of communit...
Brian Dorn