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Visual Programming

Research has continued in techniques of Visual Programming e.g. Alice. Alice has been created by Carnegie Mellon University, and is used for giving school and college students an opportunity to program. Programming by Example research has been undertaken by research groups led by Alan Kay, and Henry Lieberman. Squeak and Croquet have developed from the early work in Smalltalk, and provided a tool for end user programming, collaboration, visualisation, and simulation.

Recently these visual programming techniques have been applied to the creation of web 2.0 rich internet applications based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML). These applications aim to reproduce on the web, the functionality provided by office tools such as Excel (which is often used as an End User Programming Environment). Information about Ajax and Web 2.0 is available in my Ajax/web2.0 page here.

Links

Ajax (programming) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29 - Wikipedia.

Alan Kay - Watch What I Do - Programming by Example.

Alice v2.0 - http://www.alice.org/ - Learn to Program Interactive 3D Graphics.

Croquet - http://www.opencroquet.org/ - a new open source software platform for creating deeply collaborative multi-user online applications.

Dmoz Open Directory Project - Visual Languages - Programming Languages Reference - Visual Languages.

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing - Journal Home Page - Elsevier.

Programming by Example - http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/PBE/index.html.

Visual Language Research Bibliography - http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~burnett/vpl.html - Oregon State University - Margaret M. Burnett.

Visual Programming - http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~rbaeza/cursos/vp/todo.html - University of Chile - Ricardo Baeza-Yates.

Visual Programming Language - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language - Wikipedia.org.

Developed by Peter Hale, 2006. The University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.