Nonprogrammer web application development

ABSTRACT

We propose to investigate the feasibility of nonprogrammer web application development. The main target audience for this research is webmasters without programming experience - a group likely to be interested in building web applications. We choose a subset of web applications as the target for our analysis: basic web-based data collection, storage & retrieval applications. We propose to study the mental models of our target audience, collect requirements for a sufficiently powerful end-user programming tool, evaluate new programming paradigms, and implement a proof-of-concept prototype using participatory design techniques.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.1 PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES
      D.1.7 Visual Programming

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

  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.5 On-line Information Services
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
      H.5.4 Hypertext/Hypermedia

Keywords:
end-user programming, web application development, web engineering