Debugging and the experience of immediacy

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Debugging and the experience of immediacy

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 40 , Issue 4 (April 1997) table of contents

Pages: 38 - 43

Year of Publication: 1997

ISSN:0001-0782

Authors

David Ungar	Sun Microsystems
Henry Lieberman	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Christopher Fry	PowerScout Corp., Boston, MA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	Bay-Wei W. Chang , David Ungar, Objective reality for self: concreteness and animation in the seity user interface, 1996
	2	Henry Lieberman , Christopher Fry, Bridging the gulf between code and behavior in programming, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.480-486, May 07-11, 1995, Denver, Colorado, United States [doi>10.1145/223904.223969]
	3	Lieberman, H., and Fry, C~Step 95: A reversible, animated source c e s~pp~r In So~ %~.io.- P~og~i.g ~s ~ M.l.i~i~ Exp~i . J. Stasko, J. Domi~e, M. Brown, and B. Price, Eds. MIT Press/t~ambridge, Mas~~C)7.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Additional Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques
Subjects: User interfaces

General Terms:
Documentation, Human Factors

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The authors present the idea of programming environments providing immediacy, emphasizing those that support debugging. Their goal is to reduce the mental challenge of developing and debugging software. The user interface should make examining more...

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