How live coding affects developers' coding behavior

Krämer, Jan-Peter; Kurz, Joachim; Karrer, Thorsten; Borchers, Jan

doi:10.1109/vlhcc.2014.6883013

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“…Since then, a variety of live environments has been developed for various languages, including Python [6,10], Java [3], Javascript [17,1], Lisp [2] and ML-like languages [16]. As the feld developed, several essays were published on categorizing different kinds of liveness [19,21], and several studies explored the benefts of live programming [22,13]. Most recently, there has also been work on live editing the output of a program through direct manipulation [8,15,9].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Focused Live Programming with Loop Seeds

Lerner

2020

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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Live programming is a paradigm in which the programmer can visualize the runtime values of the program each time the program changes. The promise of live programming depends on using test cases to run the program and thereby provide these runtime values. In this paper we show that in some situations test cases are insuffcient in a fundamental way, in that there are no test inputs that can drive certain incomplete loops to produce useful data, a problem we call the loop-datavoid problem. The problem stems from the fact that useful data inside the loop might only be produced after the loop has been fully written. To solve this problem, we propose a paradigm called Focused Live Programming with Loop Seeds, in which the programmer provides hypothetical values to start a loop iteration, and then the programming environment focuses the live visualization on this hypothetical loop iteration. We introduce the loop-datavoid problem, present our proposed solution, explain it in detail, and then present the results of a user study.

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“…Live programming [7,20,21,10,1,12,11,17] is a paradigm in which the programmer can visualize the runtime values of the program each time the program changes. Live programming has been shown to help programmers fnd mistakes quickly, as they are writing the code [22,13].…”

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Focused Live Programming with Loop Seeds

Lerner

2020

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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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.…”

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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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“…One of the research areas aiming to clear this boundary is the area of live programming systems. A large amount of work was done in this field -from the design of live programming languages [32], [33] and their visual augmentation [34] to experiments [24] and integration with unit testing [35], just to name a few advances.…”

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Integrating Runtime Values with Source Code to Facilitate Program Comprehension

Sulír

2018

2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)

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An inherently abstract nature of source code makes programs difficult to understand. In our research, we designed three techniques utilizing concrete values of variables and other expressions during program execution. RuntimeSearch is a debugger extension searching for a given string in all expressions at runtime. DynamiDoc generates documentation sentences containing examples of arguments, return values and state changes. RuntimeSamp augments source code lines in the IDE (integrated development environment) with sample variable values. In this post-doctoral article, we briefly describe these three approaches and related motivational studies, surveys and evaluations. We also reflect on the PhD study, providing advice for current students. Finally, short-term and long-term future work is described.

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How live coding affects developers' coding behavior

Cited by 22 publications

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Focused Live Programming with Loop Seeds

Focused Live Programming with Loop Seeds

Exploratory and Live, Programming and Coding

Integrating Runtime Values with Source Code to Facilitate Program Comprehension

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