Extending the boundary of spreadsheet programming: Lessons learned from Chinese governmental projects

Author

Yu, Xingliang ; Li, Jing ; Zhong, Hua

Author_Institution

Inst. of Software, Grad. Univ. of Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing

fYear

2009

fDate

23-23 May 2009

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

14

Abstract

Spreadsheet is one of the most commonly used end user programming environments. As such, there has been significant effort made by researchers and the industry to develop techniques and tools to improve spreadsheets. In the course of developing spreadsheet-based applications in Chinese governmental projects, we found that enabling end-user to program on the all-in-one, hard-to-validate Chinese spreadsheet is a very challenging task. To do so, we construct system on MS Excel, and provide additional, yet customized, script language for end-user programming.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; educational courses; government data processing; programming environments; spreadsheet programs; Chinese governmental project; MS Excel; end user programming environment; spreadsheet programming; Concurrent computing; Design methodology; Error correction; Intelligent systems; Multidimensional systems; Natural languages; Programming environments; Programming profession; Testing; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Foundations for End User Programming, 2009. SEEUP '09. ICSE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3738-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SEEUP.2009.5071697

Filename

5071697