Novice Programming Environments: Explorations in Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence

ISBN-13: 9780815351641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 356 str.

Marc Eisenstadt; Mark T. Keane; Tim Rajan

Opis

This book, originally published in 1992, encapsulates ten years of research at the Open University’s Human Cognition Research Laboratory. The research investigates the problems of novice programmers, and is strongly oriented toward the design and implementation of "programming environments" aimed at eliminating or easing novices’ problems.

Spis treści

List of Contributors.  Preface.  Acknowledgements.  Part 1: Design Issues in Programming Environments  1. Design Features of a Friendly Software Environment for Novice Programmers Marc Eisenstadt  2. Principles for the Design of Dynamic Tracing Environments for Novice Programmers Tim Rajan  3. A Fine-Grained Account of Prolog Execution for Teaching and Debugging Marc Eisenstadt and Mike Brayshaw  4. A New Metaphor for the Graphical Explanation of Forward-Chaining Rule Execution John Domingue and Marc Eisenstadt  Part 2: Empirical Studies and Cognitive Models  5. Errors in an Interactive Programming Environment: Causes and Cures Marc Eisenstadt and Matthew Lewis  6. An Evaluation of ADT: An Animated Prolog Tracer for Novice Prolog Programmers Tim Rajan  7. Some Pitfalls in Learning About Recursion Hank Kahney  8. Naïve Iteration: An Account of the Conceptualizations Underlying Buggy Looping Programs Marc Eisenstadt and Joost Breuker  Part 3: Artificial Intelligence User Aids  9. The Automatic Debugging of Recursive Side-Effecting Programs Joachim Laubsch and Marc Eisenstadt  10. Syntactic Debugging of Procedural Programs Tony Hasemer  11. Plan Diagrams as the Basis for Understanding and Debugging Pascal Programs Rudi Lutz  12. An Automated Programming Advisor John Domingue.  Indices.

O autorze

Marc Eisenstadt, Mark Keane, Tim Rajan