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PPIG 2009

21^st Annual Workshop

24 - 26 June 2009

University of Limerick, Ireland

Programme

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Wednesday, 24 June 2009

Keynote

Resurrecting Programming
Micheal Kölling
University of Kent, United Kingdom

Coffee

Education

A Course Dedicated to Developing Algorithmic Problem Solving Skills - Design and Experiment [PDF] (37K)
Orna Muller & Bruria Haberman
Meta-analysis of the effect of consistency on success in early learning of programming [PDF] (264K)
Saeed Dehnadi, Richard Bornat & Ray Adams

Panel: Good Programmers: Nature or Nurture?
Margaret-Anne (Peggy) Storey, Chris Exton, Judith Good, Keith Gallagher, Thomas Green & Marian Petre

Evening reception

Thursday, 25 June 2009

Software as a Collaborative/Social Activity

Computer Code as a Medium for Human Communication: Are Programming Languages Improving? [PDF] (990K)
Gilles Dubochet
Further Observation of Open Source Programmers’ Information Seeking [PDF] (126K)
Khaironi Yatim Sharif & Jim Buckley
Types of Cooperation Episodes in Side-by-Side Programming [PDF] (388K)
Lutz Prechelt, Ulrich Stärk & Stephan Salinger
Initial Exploration of Eye Movements in Collaborative Work: Case Pair Programming [PDF] (1,639K)
Sami Pietinen, Roman Bednarik & Markku Tukiainen

Coffee

Abstraction and Cognition

Concrete Thoughts on Abstraction [PDF] (265K)
Keiron Nicholson, Judith Good & Katy Howland
Cognitive levels and Software Maintenance Sub-tasks [PDF] (107K)
Tara Kelly & Jim Buckley
Using computerized procedures for testing and training abstract comparative relations [PDF] (107K)
Agata Vitale & Veronica Cullan

Lunch

Going to the Source

Examining the Structural Features of Systems Developed in C++ and Java [PDF] (306K)
Michael English
Mining Programming Language Vocabularies from Source Code [PDF] (224K)
Daniel P. Delorey, Charles D. Knutson & Mark Davies
An Evaluation of inline source code browsing [PDF] (224K)
Michael Desmond & Chris Exton

Coffee

Tutorial

Programming using Greenfoot

Friday, 26 June 2009

Keynote

A Peek Under the Hood: One Programmer's Psychology
Keith Gallagher
University of Durham, United Kingdom

Software Engineering

Can Named Ranges Improve the Debugging Performance of Novice Spreadsheet Users? [PDF] (197K)
Ruth McKeever, Kevin McDaid & Brian Bishop
Design Requirements for an Architecture Consistency Tool [PDF] (523K)
Jacek Rosik, Jim Buckley & Muhammad Ali Babar
Software Architects: A Different Type of Software Practitioner [PDF] (287K)
Jack Downey
Communication in Testing: Improvements for Testing Management [PDF] (146K)
Tuula Pääakkönen & Jorma Sajaniemi

Lunch

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