Group:
graphical user interface
Group:
program representation
Topic:
animation
Topic:
decision table
Topic:
descriptive languages
Topic:
flow diagrams and flow charts
Topic:
icons for a user interface
Topic:
ladder diagram
Topic:
object-oriented modelling language
Topic:
problems with using icons
Topic:
programming with forms
Topic:
requirement specification by diagrams
Topic:
robot programming via graphical model
Topic:
scripting language
Topic:
software components
Topic:
structured flow diagram
Topic:
vivid representation of programs
Topic:
word vs. picture
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Subtopic: visual programming 
| Quote: text, graphics and tables are all needed for software [»joneTC4_1979a]
| | Quote: can base software languages on graphical representation of actual components; widely used in other fields, e.g., circuit diagrams [»joneTC4_1979a]
| | Quote: in paper solutions, 66% of participants used pictures or diagrams [»paneJF2_2001]
| | Quote: pictures and diagrams used early in a solution, when defining setup and layout
| | Quote: can base software languages on graphics derived from text, e.g., structured diagrams; most powerful category for humans and processing [»joneTC4_1979a]
| | Quote: programming by demonstration does not require knowledge of rule semantics; fits with graphical rewrite rules
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Subtopic: examples
| Quote: KidSim uses graphical rewrite rules and programming by demonstration; allows children to specify behavior without programming [»smitDC7_1994]
| | Quote: every HANDS card has name-value pairs for cardname, x, y, back, speed, direction; automatic display and animation
| | Quote: programs are stored in Handy's thought bubble as a collection of event handlers; e.g., when any bee collides with any flower // subtract 1 from the flower's nectar [»paneJF9_2002]
| | Quote: make a role's schedules, documents, and correspondence visually available; visual cues of goals, tasks, events, and related individuals
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Subtopic: 2-d language
| Quote: can base software languages on 2-d text, e.g., decision tables; excellent for organizing information but difficult to read and use [»joneTC4_1979a]
| | QuoteRef: baueFL7_1972 ;;Plankalhal is rather neat; predecessor language; uses 2-d format
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Subtopic: network/dataflow programming
| Quote: Boxer's device programming is like electronic design where a few types of components are hooked together as a network; graphical and simple [»diseAA_1986]
| | Quote: in Visiprog have a network of nodes for programs and data showing their relationships; if edit a program node, then the resulting data node is updated [»kariRR7_1987]
| | Quote: dataflow input to a port from another process, a device icon, a literal, or empty (an immediate end)
| Quote: SYNCRO for non-linear leveled data flow networks; pictorial representation
[»demaT3_1984]
dQuote: given a name, SYNCRO gets a process and all its ports; can connect ports as desired in data flow, command drawing
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Subtopic: flowcharting
| Quote: in a hybrid graphics language, the graphics provide the overview and context for textual details; e.g., flow charting [»joneTC4_1979b]
| | Quote: can base software languages on diagrams with text, e.g., flowcharts; useful for humans but difficult to process [»joneTC4_1979a]
| | Quote: schematic pseudocode provides graphical indications for sequential, repetitive, and conditional actions [»plamR7_1981]
| | Quote: Pancode is presented as box charts; like flowcharts [»jonsD8_1987]
| | Quote: program in MicroTool with a flowchart of single-entry, single-exit nodes [»elshJL1_1991]
| | Quote: uses machine translatable flow charts; sequence vertical, parallelism horizontal, refinement diagonal [»wittRW9_1977, OK]
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Subtopic: multiple displays
| Quote: Programmers_Assistant maintains a program and a plan; the programmer can edit either and the analyzer or coder respectively updates the other [»wateRC1_1982]
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Subtopic: tree of nodes
| Quote: represent a program as a tree of structure and reference nodes; a reference points to a node (its value); leaves are empty structures (atomic values); nodes have a descriptive label, e.g., "3256" for an atomic value [»edwaJ10_2005]
| | Quote: functions in Subtext are structures that react to change; changing a subnode changes the result [»edwaJ10_2005]
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Subtopic: link display
| Quote: represent a link with a compass widget; on visit, the indicator tick extends to the link's source; need mouse to appreciate the dynamic display of reference [»edwaJ10_2005]
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Subtopic: set diagram
| Quote: Euler/Venn diagrams are good for representing a collection of states and structural relations between them [»hareD5_1988]
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Subtopic: hierarchical diagram
| Quote: visual representations of hierarchies: tree, chinese box, outline [»smitJB6_1987]
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Subtopic: decision tree
| Quote: users did better with decision trees than with a linear syntax; languages should allow a graphical syntax [»vessI1_1986]
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Subtopic: no structure
| QuoteRef: smitDC6_1975 ;;11 "But 'linear' programming languages have no spatial structure at all.
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Subtopic: obsolete graphical tools
Quote: when graphical tools become popular, a new programming paradigm makes them obsolete; e.g., flowcharts and structured programming; UML may indicate a paradigm shift
[»soukJ8_2007]
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Related Topics
Group: graphical user interface (24 topics, 512 quotes)
Group: program representation (25 topics, 659 quotes)
Topic: animation (20 items)
Topic: decision table (29 items)
Topic: descriptive languages (22 items)
Topic: flow diagrams and flow charts (21 items)
Topic: icons for a user interface (23 items)
Topic: ladder diagram (5 items)
Topic: object-oriented modelling language (6 items)
Topic: problems with using icons (11 items)
Topic: programming with forms (26 items)
Topic: requirement specification by diagrams (27 items)
Topic: robot programming via graphical model (4 items)
Topic: scripting language (27 items)
Topic: software components (11 items)
Topic: structured flow diagram (36 items)
Topic: vivid representation of programs (22 items)
Topic: word vs. picture
(12 items)
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