DocumentCode
3331267
Title
Thinking about visual programs
Author
Green, T.R.G. ; Blackwell, A.F.
Author_Institution
MRC Applied Psychol. Unit, Cambridge, UK
fYear
1996
fDate
35082
Firstpage
42491
Lastpage
42494
Abstract
The theme of this paper is that simple comparisons between diagrams and text are inappropriate, at least in the programming area. Simple text-graphic comparisons are certainly very popular among computer scientists; we surveyed the literature and found that the vast majority made the simple assertion that visual programming would be better. Various reasons were cited; we present some of them
Keywords
visual programming; diagrams; literature review; programming comparison; textual programming; visual programming;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Thinking with Diagrams (Digest No: 1996/010), IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location
London
Type
conf
DOI
10.1049/ic:19960047
Filename
646156
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