Languages & Visualizations to Enable Effective End User Programming
Jane Hoffswell · 2019
Programming requires expertise to employ effectively. My research aims to help end user programmers more effectively author, understand, and reuse code and data through the design of new languages and program visualization tools. New programming languages can raise the level of abstraction to focus on relevant domain-specific details. Improved tools can better align with and enrich end user programmers' mental models. Visualizing program state and behavior promotes program understanding, and can proactively surface surprising or incorrect results. My future work proposes to explore new visualization techniques and languages to facilitate understanding of constraint programming systems.