Paper Info
Title
Visual Process-Oriented Programming For Robotics
Abstract
When teaching concurrency, using a process-oriented language, it is often introduced through a visual representation of programs in the form of process network diagrams. These diagrams allow the design of and abstract reasoning about programs, consisting of concurrently executing communicating processes. without needing any syntactic knowledge of the eventual implementation language. Process network diagrams are usually drawn on paper or with general-purpose diagramming software. meaning the program must be implemented as syntactically correct program code before it can be run. This paper presents POPed, an introductory parallel programming tool leveraging process network diagrams as a visual language for the creation of process-oriented programs. Using only visual layout and connection of pre-created components, the user can explore process orientation without knowledge of the underlying programming language, enabling a "processes first" approach to parallel programming. POPed has been targeted specifically at basic robotic control, to provide a context in which introductory parallel programming can be naturally motivated.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.3233/978-1-58603-907-3-365
COMMUNICATING PROCESS ARCHITECTURES 2008
Keywords
Field
DocType
computer programming,programming language,robot control
Programming language,Computer science,Natural language programming,Very high-level programming language,Visual programming language,High-level programming language,First-generation programming language,Programming domain,Programming language implementation,Semantics (computer science)
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
66
1383-7575
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
14
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jonathan Simpson140.82
Christian L. Jacobsen2163.00