Design and Implementation of Cafe: A Programming Language for Beginners

Author

Uehara, Minoru

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Sci. & Arts, Toyo Univ., Toyo, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 June 2009

Firstpage

368

Lastpage

373

Abstract

To assist in developing the service industry, many students are studying ICT (Information and Communication Technology) engineering at University. The ability to program is important for ICT engineers. To develop programming skills, students need to learn an educational programming language for beginners. In addition, a ubiquitous development environment is useful. We have designed an educational programming language for beginners, called Cafe. In this paper, we describe the language specification for Cafe and its ubiquitous development environment. Both the runtime and ubiquitous environments for Cafe are implemented in JavaScript. As such, only a browser is required to run these, with no additional server load.

Keywords

C language; Java; computer aided instruction; computer science education; formal specification; programming environments; ubiquitous computing; C language; Cafe; Java; Web based IDE; educational programming language; language specification; programming skill; ubiquitous development environment; Art; Cellular phones; Computer languages; Costs; Education; Internet; Java; Personal communication networks; Programming profession; Smart phones;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2009. ICDCS Workshops '09. 29th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

ISSN

1545-0678

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3660-6

Electronic_ISBN

1545-0678

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCSW.2009.14

Filename

5158879