Paper Info
Title
In search of design principles for programming environments
Abstract
Software development environments are becoming progressively more advanced in their support for construction of large software applications. However, it is still tedious and time consuming for programmers to build even simple applications. This paper describes an exploratory study which identifies some common problems experienced by programmers working with a range of currently available tools. Eight professional programmers were observed while each built the same simple application using a different !software development environment. Problems encountered during the authoring process were noted, Four categories of common problems emerged. Design principles implied by these categories are suggested.
Year
DOI
Venue
1994
10.1145/191666.191810
CHI Conference Companion
Keywords
Field
DocType
design principle,user-centered design,programming environment,authoring tools,programming environments,user centered design,software development environment,exploratory study
Design elements and principles,Functional reactive programming,Computer science,Inductive programming,Extensible programming,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,Software development,User-centered design
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-89791-650-6
6
0.97
References 
Authors
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stephanie Houde16616.16
Royston Sellman2181.99