Extracting and answering why and why not questions about Java program output

Ko, Amy J.; Myers, Brad A.

doi:10.1145/1824760.1824761

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“…WhyLine [10] is a modern interactive debugging tool where the user can ask questions during debugging about why a certain change happened. By recording the execution trace, it is possible to solve complex debugging problems by navigating through history.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Game programming by demonstration

Mayer

Kunčak

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming &Amp; Software

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The increasing adoption of smartphones and tablets has provided tens of millions of users with substantial resources for computation, communication and sensing. The availability of these resources has a huge potential to positively transform our society and empower individuals. Unfortunately, although the number of users has increased dramatically, the number of developers is still limited by the high barrier that existing programming environments impose.To understand possible directions for helping end users to program, we present Pong Designer, an environment for developing 2D physics games through direct manipulation of object behaviors. Pong Designer is built using Scala and runs on Android tablets with the multi-touch screen as the main input. We show that Pong Designer can create simple games in a few steps. This includes (multi-player and multi-screen) Pong, Brick Breaker, Pacman, Tilting maze. We make available Pong Designer as well as several editable games that we created using it. This paper describes the main principles behind Pong Designer, and illustrates the process of developing and customizing behavior in this approach.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Game programming by demonstration

Mayer

Kunčak

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming &Amp; Software

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“…Most debuggers operate on a very low level and often require much time and effort by the user to deliver meaningful information. The approach taken by the WHYLINE system [19] improves this situation by inverting the direction of debugging. This system allows users to ask "Why...?"…”

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confidence: 99%

A DSL for Explaining Probabilistic Reasoning

Erwig

Walkingshaw

2009

Domain-Specific Languages

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Abstract. We propose a new focus in language design where languages provide constructs that not only describe the computation of results, but also produce explanations of how and why those results were obtained. We posit that if users are to understand computations produced by a language, that language should provide explanations to the user.As an example of such an explanation-oriented language we present a domain-specific language for explaining probabilistic reasoning, a domain that is not well understood by non-experts. We show the design of the DSL in several steps. Based on a story-telling metaphor of explanations, we identify generic constructs for building stories out of events, and obtaining explanations by applying stories to specific examples. These generic constructs are then adapted to the particular explanation domain of probabilistic reasoning. Finally, we develop a visual notation for explaining probabilistic reasoning.

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“…The Natural Programming project [1] at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has repeatedly demonstrated that many of the these techniques can be adapted to improve the effectiveness of the tools and languages used by developers. For example, we have applied them to the user interfaces of integrated development environments (IDEs) [2,3], debuggers [4], programming languages [5], and APIs (application programming interfaces) [6][7][8][9][10]. Many HCI techniques are applicable, and we have used contextual inquiry, heuristic evaluation, cognitive walkthrough, ethnography, and controlled lab studies.…”

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A case study of using HCI methods to improve tools for programmers

Faulring¹,

Myers²,

Oren³

et al. 2012

2012 5th International Workshop on Co-Operative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE)

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Abstract-For more than five years, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have been collaborating with several SAP teams to improve the usability of SAP's developer tools and programming APIs. Much research has shown that HCI techniques can improve the tools that developers use to write software. In a recent project, we applied HCI techniques to a SAP developer tool for the SAP NetWeaver Gateway product. The SAP team building this tool uses agile software development processes, which allowed them to quickly improve the tool's usability based upon the evaluations.

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Extracting and answering why and why not questions about Java program output

Cited by 73 publications

References 37 publications

Game programming by demonstration

Game programming by demonstration

A DSL for Explaining Probabilistic Reasoning

A case study of using HCI methods to improve tools for programmers

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