Does continuous visual feedback aid debugging in direct-manipulation programming systems?

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Does continuous visual feedback aid debugging in direct-manipulation programming systems?

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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Pages: 258 - 265

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-802-9

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E. M. Wilcox	Dept. of Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR and Timberline Software, 9600 S.W. Nimbus Ave., Beaverton, OR
J. W. Atwood	Dept. of Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
M. M. Burnett	Dept. of Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
J. J. Cadiz	Dept. of Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
C. R. Cook	Dept. of Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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