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This page lists and links to the recent newsletters on
this web site. The latest newsletter is listed first. The current
newsletter editor is Chris Douce, c.douce (at)open.ac.uk
| Issue: January 2008 | Editor: Chris Douce |
PPIG 2008 Information Preliminary information about the next workshop
Work in progress workshop Information about the work in progress workshop to be held in Sussex University
Review of PPIG 07 Johanna Hunt describes the previous workshop.
Book and Journal Reviews Chris Douce reviews Beautiful Code edited by Oram and Wilson
Book Announcement Willemien Visser announces the publication of The Cognitive Artifacts of Designing
Search Slices Chris Douce is introspective about his own debugging
Conferences, Workshops and Call for Papers
Spotlight on PPIGers where you are and what you are doing.
Natural Programming Project Brad Myers tells us more about the Natural Programming project
Connected links A collection of of potentially related web resources.
| Issue: March 2007 | Editor: Chris Douce |
PPIG 2007 Information which is to be held in Joensuu, Finland
Work in progress workshop The participants write a review of a successful work-in-progress workshop
Book and Journal Reviews Chris Douce reviews Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg
Biting a Bullet Ruminations on learning a new programming language
Conferences, Workshops and Call for Papers
Spotlight on PPIGers where you are and what you are doing.
Connected links A number web links that may be of interest to PPIG members
| Issue: September 2006 | Editor: Françoise Détienne |
A gentle overview of software visualisation by Marian Petre and Ed de Quincey
Open source software communities: current issues by Françoise Détienne, Jean-Marie Burkhardt and Flore Barcellini
XP and Pair Programming practices by Sallyann Bryant, Benedict du Boulay and Pablo Romero
Collaboration in mature XP teams by Helen Sharp and Hugh Robinson
Agile Stories: Agile Systems and Narrative Research by Johanna Hunt, Pablo Romero, and Judith Good
| Issue: June 2006 | Editor: Chris Douce |
Work in progress workshop Maria Kutar writes a review of a successful 'unroll your ideas' work-in-progress workshop
Ethnographies of Code John Rooksby describes what happened at his workshop in Lancaster University
ITiCSE 2006 Review Ramanee Peiris writes a review of ITiCSE 2006.
Book and Journal Reviews Chris Douce reviews Test Driven Development by Kent Beck
The Emotional Programmer Chris Douce contemplates the relationship (and use) that emotion plays in programming
Conferences, Workshops and Call for Papers
Whatever happened to ESP? Alan Blackwell answers this frequently asked question
Linguistics and Programming Languages Martin Sustrick presents a linguistic perspective on a number of programming constructs
Spotlight on PPIGers where you are and what you are doing.
EUSES Consortium Margaret Burnett tells us the latest news about Research on End-User Software Engineering at CHI'06
EUSES Consortium Patrick O'Beirne introduces EuSpRIG, a community that explores how spreadsheets are used
Connected Links Chris Douce presents a number of potentially related links and ideas.
| Issue: November 2005 | Editor: Chris Douce |
PPIG 2005 Workshop Review - Edgar Chaparro describes what went on at the last PPIG workshop held in Brighton
Work in progress workshop Andree Woodcock provides us with information about a forthcoming work-in-progress workshop
PPIG 06 Some preliminary information about the next PPIG workshop.
Book and Journal Reviews - Chris Douce reviews Handbook of Mathematical Cognition edited by Jamie Campbell
What should we be doing? - Ruven Brooks and Carl Hardeman gives their point of view on areas and topics which may be of interest to the psychology of programming community
Newsletter Interview: Professor Jorma Sajaniemi - Professor Sajaniemi has agreed be be interviewed for this edition of the newsletter.
Conferences, Workshops and Call for Papers
A brief overview of theories of learning to program a short article by Steven C. Shaffer
Spotlight on PPIGers where you are and what you are doing.
EUSES Consortium - Margaret Burnett tells us the latest news about the End Users Shaping Effective Software Consortium
Doddery Fodder a busy Frank Wales tells us of a number of new TLAs
Light Tones and Connected Links Comprises of a class of paradigm busting URLs from Chris Douce
| Issue: April 2005 | Editor: Chris Douce |
PPIG 2005 Workshop Pablo Romero provides some details about the forthcoming workshop
Work in Progress Workshop Review Eileen Doyle provides a fine witness report on the event that was the Unroll your ideas work-in-progress workshop
Book and Journal Reviews - Chris Douce reviews Code Complete by Steve McConnell
Conferences, Workshops and Call for Papers
Spotlight on PPIGers where you are and what you are doing
Curiosity Corner Chris Douce present an ecclectic list of programming related trivia and links
Factors affecting use of constructs Derek Jones presents a short article about the use of programming constructs
Software Patents A number of links to language design and software patent issues
| Issue: September 2004 | Editor: Chris Douce |
Workshop Review Chris Douce compiles a witness report on the success that was PPIG 2004
Work in progress workshop Marjahan Begum and Thomas Green provides us with information about a forthcoming work-in-progress workshop
Book and Journal Reviews Chris Douce reviews Computer Science Education Research by Sally Fincher and Marian Petre
Conferences, Workshops and Call for Papers
Spotlight on PPIGers where you are and what you are doing.
Musings from the Trenches Chris Douce puts fingers-to-keys to contemplate zero, plus or minus one.
Links beyond A number web links that may be of interest to PPIG members
| Issue: February 2004 | Editor: Chris Douce |
PPIG '04 Enda Dunican provides us with some preliminary information regarding next years workshop.
Book and Journal Reviews Chris Douce reviews Secure Coding : Principles and Practices by Mark Graff and Kenneth van Wyk
Conferences,Workshops and Call for Papers
New Projects Andree Woodcock from the Design Institute, Coventry University, UK, introduces his new project.
Links beyond Derek Jones supplies us with an interesting and useful set of related links
Spotlight on PPIGers where you are and what you are doing.
Help Wanted Fellow PPIGers require your assistance
Cognitive Cultural Diversity and Software Design, a discussion paper by Allen Milewski and Richard Clayton
CamelCase remembers the contentious topic of identifiers, summarised by Chris Douce
PPIG mailing lists A reminder about the PPIG mailing lists
| Issue: August 2003 | Editor: Chris Douce |
Workshop Review - Jim Buckley compiles a witness report on PPIG 2003
PPIG '04 - Enda Dunican provides us with some preliminary information regarding next years workshop.
Book and Journal Reviews - Chris Douce reviews The Elements of Java Style by Allan Vermeulen et. al.
Conferences, Workshops and Call for Papers
Newsletter Paper - The Intangible System: What does an Executing Software System Look Like? by Pamela O'Shea.
Spotlight on PPIGers - Where you are and what you are doing
Musings from the Trenches - Chris Douce puts fingers-to-keys to contemplate slices of life as a professional software developer.
Links beyond A number web links that may be of interest to PPIG members
It's Doddery Fodder ...but is it Art? - Another foray into the humourous, bizarre and interesting by Frank Wales.
| Issue: February 2003 | Editor: Chris Douce |
Workshop Review - Marian Petre reports on HCC and ESP
Book and Journal Reviews - Chris Douce reviews The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
Conferences, Workshops and Call for Papers
Bibliographies A journey into literature surrounding theories and models of programming Chris Douce
Books - Derek Jones presents a number of books that will be of interest to those new to the Psychology of Programming
Doddery Fodder 3: Going Over the Limit Another eclectic selection of related sites by Frank Wales
| Issue: August 2002 | Editor: Chris Douce |
Workshop Review - Chris Douce reports on PPIG 2002
Book and Journal Reviews - Chris Douce reviews Goto Software Superheroes by Steve Lohr.
Spotlight on PPIGers - Where they are and what they are doing
Conferences, Workshops and Call for Papers
Doddery Fodder 2: Harder to Digest, Another light-hearted selection of programming related web sites by Frank Wales.
In Memory Edsger Wybe
Dijkstra
| Issue: January 2002 | Editor: Chris Douce |
Book Reviews - Chris Douce reviews Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code.
Software Design - Cognitive Aspects - Françoise Détienne introduces her new book.
Announcements - Find out more about the forthcoming PPIG'02 workshop including ESP and several other related workshops and conferences.
New Projects Hypothesis-Based Conceptual Mapping of Source Code, Nicolas Gold.
Spotlight on PPIGers - Where you all are and what you are doing!
Doddery Fodder A
light-hearted selection of programming related web sites by Frank
Wales.
| Issue: July 2001 | Editor: Chris Douce |
Book Reviews, Chris Douce - Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution
Musings from the Trenches, Fabrice Retkowsky
Paper: A proposal for yet another dimension - the case for Tunability, Chris Roast
Conference Reports: IWPC 2001, Michael O'Brien
New Projects: A new crusade for comprehension, Pablo Romero
Announcements:
INSERC 2001,
eLearn Magazine
and spotlight on PPIGers:
David Gilmore,
Alan Blackwell and
Terry Eden
| Issue: January 2001 | Editor: Paul Mulholland |
Issue: ![[off-site]](../images/off-site.gif "off-site link"){kind=small} July 2000 |
Editor: Paul Mulholland |
| Issue: January 2000 |
Editor: Paul Mulholland |
| Issue: Summer 1999 |
Editor: Paul Mulholland |
| Issue: December 1998 |
Editor: Paul Mulholland |
| Issue: July 1998 |
Editor: Paul Mulholland |
| Issue: December 1997 |
Editor: Paul Mulholland |
| Issue: June 1997 |
Editor: Paul Mulholland |
| Issue: October 1994 | Editor: Paola Kathuria |