Visual programming: Perspectives and approaches

Shu, Nan C.

doi:10.1147/sj.382.0199

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“…Many people find it easier to perform calculations in spreadsheets than to write the equivalent sequential program [11], [49]. One of the main properties of spreadsheets is its usage of human spatial perception and reasoning: spreadsheets are designed to perform general computation tasks using spatial relationships rather than time as the primary organizing principle.…”

Section: Spreadsheets Basicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

End-User Service Computing: Spreadsheets as a Service Composition Tool

Obrenović

Gašević

2008

IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput.

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Abstract-In this paper, we show how spreadsheets, an end-user development paradigm proven to be highly productive and simple to learn and use, can be used for complex service compositions. We identify the requirements for spreadsheet-based service composition and present our framework that implements these requirements. Our framework enables spreadsheets to send requests and retrieve results from various local and remote services. We show how our tools support different composition patterns and how the style of declarative dependencies of spreadsheets can facilitate service composition. We also discuss novel issues identified by using the framework in several projects and education.Index Terms-Online information services end-user development and service-oriented computing, information systems applications office automation and spreadsheets, software engineering distribution, maintenance, and enhancement.

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Section: Spreadsheets Basicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

End-User Service Computing: Spreadsheets as a Service Composition Tool

Obrenović

Gašević

2008

IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput.

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“…Perhaps after 60 years of this text-based approach it is time for a more direct approach to producing modern graphically-based programs (1). Visual programming (VPL) paradigms (2,3,4,45) have been available for over two decades (for example Visual Basic started in 1991 [47]) and yet many (including Visual Basic) still at least most of the time involve large amounts of exacting text entry of complex logic. The visual aspect of standard Visual Programming typically consists solely of placing and sizing visual components onto the main form of the application and similar GUI designing for dialogue boxes and daughter forms of the application.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scalable Connectionless Iconic Programming

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2013

IJPLA

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“…Visual programming approaches aim towards easing the programming learning curve or enhancing programming productivity. Their adoption was based on a number of premises [2]: pictures may be able to concisely convey meaning more efficiently than words, pictures could help understanding and remembering, pictures may enhance the experience of programming by making it more interesting, and culturally-neutral pictures can be understandable regardless of what language people speak.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…See for example the references [2,14,1,15,6] (discussing visual programming and providing examples of specific approaches), [16,17,18,3] (discussing graphical Unix-tool front ends), [19,20,21,7,22] (discussing component-based development), [17,23,24,25,26,27] (discussing visual data-flow approaches), and [28,29] (discussing pipe and filter architectures). The main contributions of this paper are: the proposal to use standard GUI builders as visual programming environments by means of specially crafted reflective components, the idea that GUI builders can be used to configure sophisticated component interactions and deployment scenarios, and the demonstration of visual programming and GUI interfacing utilising the well-known Unix text processing tools encapsulated as ActiveX components.…”

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Unix tools as visual programming components in a GUI‐builder environment

Spinellis

2001

Softw Pract Exp

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Development environments based on ActiveX controls and JavaBeans are marketed as "visual programming" platforms; in practice their visual dimension is limited to the design and implementation of an application's graphical user interface (GUI. The availability of sophisticated GUI development environments and visual component development frameworks is now providing viable platforms for implementing visual programming within general-purpose platforms, i.e. for the specification of non-GUI program functionality using visual representations. We describe how specially-designed reflective components can be used in an industry-standard visual programming environment to graphically specify sophisticated data transformation pipelines that interact with GUI elements. The components are based on Unix-style filters repackaged as ActiveX controls. Their visual layout on the development environment canvas is used to specify the connection topology of the resultant pipeline. The process of converting filter-style programs as visual controls is automated using a domainspecific language. We demonstrate the approach through the design and the visual implementation of a GUI-based spelling checker.

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Visual programming: Perspectives and approaches

Cited by 26 publications

References 70 publications

End-User Service Computing: Spreadsheets as a Service Composition Tool

End-User Service Computing: Spreadsheets as a Service Composition Tool

Scalable Connectionless Iconic Programming

Unix tools as visual programming components in a GUI‐builder environment

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