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Ingalls, Daniel H. H.; Kaehler, Ted; Maloney, John; Wallace, Scott A.; Kay, Alan

doi:10.1145/263698.263754

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“…Contrary to television, touchscreens are physically interactive, have the possibility to scaffold children's learning, and can provide immediate, contingent feedback in the absence of a social partner, making them possess many similar features to play in the real world (Ingalls, Kaehler, Maloney, Wallace, & Kay, 1997;Lovato & Waxman, 2016;Marsh et al, 2015;Revelle, 2013;Strommen, 1993). For instance, touchscreens make it possible for young children to solve puzzles earlier than they would with physical toys because they may not yet have the dexterity to manipulate the physical pieces (O'Connor, 2017).…”

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Detailing the digital experience: Parent reports of children's media use in the home learning environment

Huber¹,

Highfield²,

Kaufman³

2018

Brit J Educational Tech

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Screen media occupy an increasing role in young children's play and learning environments. This paper advances the current discussion of the changing digital lives of children, with new insights of media use in the homes of Australian families (N = 406). Parents reported their child's technology ownership, engagement with traditional and new media, joint media engagement, as well as children's preferences and quantity of media use. From 2014 to 2017, cross‐sectional data were collected via media use questionnaire from families with a child 8 years of age or younger. Of all the media activities, children most frequently participated in reading (paper‐based or eBooks) and watching television. Children's touchscreen use indicated a variety of choices from the “digital toy box,” referring to the numerous apps available and their potential to serve as a medium for play. This data can inform policy and practice of researchers, educators and family engagement specialists and optimize early learning potential prior to formal schooling.

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Detailing the digital experience: Parent reports of children's media use in the home learning environment

Huber¹,

Highfield²,

Kaufman³

2018

Brit J Educational Tech

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“…Live Programming (18) Real-time Programming and the Big Ideas of Computational Literacy [13] (17) VIVA: A Visual Language for Image Processing [36] (15) Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation [11] (13) It's Alive! Continuous Feedback in UI Programming [3] (13) Living It Up with a Live Programming Language [24] Exploratory Programming (10) Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation [11] (7) Smalltalk and Exploratory Programming [30] (5) Using Prototypical Objects to Implement Shared Behavior in Object-Oriented Systems [21] (4) An Efficient Implementation of SELF -A Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Language Based on Prototypes [6] (4) The Design and Implementation of the Self Compiler, an Optimizing Compiler for Object-Oriented Programming Languages [5] (4) Back to the Future: The Story of Squeak, a Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself [17] (4) Self: The Power of Simplicity [40] Live Coding (33) Live Coding in Laptop Performance [8] (15) The Programming Language as a Musical Instrument [1] (14) Live Coding of Consequence [7] (14) Gibber: Live Coding Audio in the Browser [28] (13) Aa-Cell in Practice: An Approach to Musical Live Coding [32] (13) Live Algorithm Programming and a Temporary Organisation for its Promotion [41] We retrieved less than a third of the references through Semantic Scholar. We extracted the remaining references in a semi-automated process directly from the publications.…”

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Exploratory and Live, Programming and Coding

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Various programming tools, languages, and environments give programmers the impression of changing a program while it is running. This experience of liveness has been discussed for over two decades and a broad spectrum of research on this topic exists. Amongst others, this work has been carried out in the communities around three major ideas which incorporate liveness as an important aspect: live programming, exploratory programming, and live coding.While there have been publications on the focus of each particular community, the overall spectrum of liveness across these three communities has not been investigated yet. Thus, we want to delineate the variety of research on liveness. At the same time, we want to investigate overlaps and differences in the values and contributions between the three communities.Therefore, we conducted a literature study with a sample of 212 publications on the terms retrieved from three major indexing services. On this sample, we conducted a thematic analysis regarding the following aspects: motivation for liveness, application domains, intended outcomes of running a system, and types of contributions. We also gathered bibliographic information such as related keywords and prominent publications.Besides other characteristics the results show that the field of exploratory programming is mostly about technical designs and empirical studies on tools for general-purpose programming. In contrast, publications on live coding have the most variety in their motivations and methodologies with a majority being empirical studies with users. As expected, most publications on live coding are applied to performance art. Finally, research on live programming is mostly motivated by making programming more accessible and easier to understand, evaluating their tool designs through empirical studies with users.In delineating the spectrum of work on liveness, we hope to make the individual communities more aware of the work of the others. Further, by giving an overview of the values and methods of the individual communities, we hope to provide researchers new to the field of liveness with an initial overview. ACM CCS 2012Software and its engineering → Development frameworks and environments;

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“…In contrast, metacircular VMs [14,16,20,28] are implemented in the same programming language they execute. Both the application and VM code are treated uniformly.…”

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“…Squeak [14] is a metacircular Smalltalk VM. It is written in a subset of Smalltalk: a non-object-oriented programming style is necessary to allow the interpreter to be translated to C code, which is then compiled to machine code.…”

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Fine-grained modularity and reuse of virtual machine components

Wimmer

Brunthaler

Larsen

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Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development

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Modularity is a key concept for large and complex applications and an important enabler for collaborative research. In comparison, virtual machines (VMs) are still mostly monolithic pieces of software. Our goal is to significantly reduce to the cost of extending VMs to efficiently host and execute multiple, dynamic languages. We are designing and implementing a VM following the "everything is extensible" paradigm. Among the novel use cases that will be enabled by our research are: VM extensions by third parties, support for multiple languages inside one VM, and a universal VM for mobile devices.Our research will be based on the existing state of the art. We will reuse an existing metacircular Java TM VM and an existing dynamic language VM implemented in Java. We will split the VMs into fine-grained modules, define explicit interfaces and extension points for the modules, and finally re-connect them.Performance is one of the most important concerns for VMs. Modularity improves flexibility but can introduce an unacceptable performance overhead at the module boundaries, e.g., for inter-module method calls. We will identify this overhead and address it with novel feedback-directed compiler optimizations. These optimizations will also improve the performance of modular applications running on top of our VM.The expected results of our research will be not only new insights and a new design approach for VMs, but also a complete reference implementation of a modular VM where everything is extensible by third parties and that supports multiple languages.

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Back to the future

Cited by 263 publications

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Detailing the digital experience: Parent reports of children's media use in the home learning environment

Detailing the digital experience: Parent reports of children's media use in the home learning environment

Exploratory and Live, Programming and Coding

Fine-grained modularity and reuse of virtual machine components

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